I am having some trouble with the mouseExited event in
MouseAdapter/MouseListener. I have a Panel with 3 labels on it. I would
like to start a timer when the mouse is anywhere over this panel
(including the labels), and stop the timer when it leaves the panel

Can anyone suggest possible reasons why when reading from file an
IOException occurs. Initially the file does not exist so the program
creates a new instance fine and adds data to it. However if i load it
again the exception occurs even though the file is present in the

I have a JMenu which contains a sub menu and a couple of
JCheckBoxMenuItems. I'm wondering how to go about aligning the text
such that the sub menu label is in line with the text of the check
boxes. Like so:

Hi i have coded a chatroom client that connects tot he server i am
using a JtextArea with JscrollPane. The user inputs a sentence in the
text field when they press enter it goes to the server and the server
send it tot he client the client diplays it int he textarea ok the

just i want to change the direction of the writing in the text field
to be from right to left. I tried Font.layoutGlyphVector but I don't
know how to set the arguments especailly the first and the second
arguments. Am i in the right way or there is another way? pls help.

What is the most widely used GUI platform for Java?  I am only familiar with
Swing, but I understand there are others.  I am relatively new to Java,
although I have done plenty of C and C++ with some MFC and lots of Motif.
Any help would be appreciated.

 I have a very sensitive environment: Whenever I do something
 wrong with Swing, I either get a Windows error box after
 terminating the Swing program or my Windows is even freezing.
 I appreciate this, as it helps me to detect errors.

my brain must be mashed, otherwise i dont see whats wrong with the following
code..
<sscce>
import java.awt.BorderLayout;

Hi...
" Does anybody know how I can Drag an icon/object  (which is an exe.
and has short cut, for example java web start icon)  from windows
desktop to Java GUI application ? If so, where can I Find More

If I have this layout with 3 columns:
[comp1 weight=0][comp2 weight=3][comp3 weight=2]
[comp4 weight=1 gridwidth=3                                     ]
[comp5 weight=0.75 gridwidth=2    ][comp6 weight=4]

I am writing applet communication with servlet .but I have a  EOFException.
applet code.
URL urlServlet;
HttpURLConnection conn;

HI guys im relatively new to java applications so apologies in advance
if im on the worng track. I will try to explain my problem concisely.
1) i have a class called user.java that holds the  variables
               String userName;

" Does anybody know how I can Drag an icon/object  (which is an exe.
and has short cut, for example java web start icon)  from windows
desktop to Java GUI application ? If so, where can I Find More
info/demo source code"

I want to show the popupmenu when users do the right click on the
menuitem to do something like the mozilla or internet explorer
Favorites menu which can be do right click to show the popup.
I tried this, but i always have the following problems:

I'm developing an application that accepts Arabic string as input in text
field. The Arabic language is written from right to left so Im trying to use
FontRenderContext class to Font.layoutGlyphVector to make the writing
direction from right to left. I have two problems: