I've a JDialog with some JPanels (and different layout managers). In a
JPanel I've a JTextField, I'd like that, when the dialog is shown
(using setVisible(true)) the JTextField could have focus, so the user
could start typing.

I have some buttons on my UI and a textfield.
when the user dont click one of my buttons the focus from the textfiled
is lost
how solve this?

Is it safe to use JFrame before the constructor is invoked as in this code
sample:
class MyClass
{

In my Java Applet whenever toolTipText appears everything behind it
goes blank. When the mouses moves away from the toolTipText area
everything appears again. Any ideas what the problem could be?
Cheers

I have a JScrollPane that must always be a certain height.  Sometimes
the JPanel within it is shorter than the full height, in which case
the contents of the JPanel show up in the vertical center of the
JScrollPane.

This is from java.sun.com example of printing large JPanel:
...
job.setPrintable(this);
...

   what's the best way of calculating the time differences between
           "22:00:00" and "01:00:00"
   the answer I want is 180 minutes....
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   when I create my menu, I have many options disabled.
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Bill

i am trying  put JTextfield  and JButton  in a cell of JTable,
the problem   with editors  , i am unable apply editors for
both components  .please help  this  issue

Does anybody have an opinion on how widely Swing apps are accepted in
Fortune 500 companies?   My client -- a small IT secruity outfit, is
considering revamping their flagship product, a Swing application with a SQL
Server backend.

I have created a JApplet and put it on the web, the applet itself loads
fine the first time it is viewed but if you refresh the page or visit
another page and then return the applet does not display properly (you
can only see the gray background). I know that I would have to put

How do I tell if my HTML & CSS that I'm trying to get displayed in my
JEditorPane is supported by JEditorPane? I'm having trouble making some
CSS work, but I'm not sure if I've got my CSS correct so I don't know
which problem I'm encountering.

I'm using SpringLayout with SpringUtilities to make a simple GUI.
To align it within the JPanel containing it, I want to get the JPanels
height, and use that to specify a distance from the bottom of the
JPanel I want the components to display.

hello everyone, basically i am very new to this gui development field.
i started using swing on my linux machine. i am using fedora core 4. i
made few menu based screens and ran it successfully. but there is a lot
of difference when i view the same at my windows machine. even the

Hi, I've a JTable where the first column contains an extension of a
JFormattedTextField.
The field is set to only allow the user to type in dates in the format
MM/DD/YYYY i.e. a blank field is displayed as __/__/____, when the user