On a per-column bases I want to change the color of the lines separating the
table columns i.e. the grid color. Is there any easy way to acheve this?
Thanks and regards
Roland

I need to capture alt-f4,bcoz i don't want to close my GUI application
by pressing alt-f4.
plz help

I am trying to capture the click event of my Jrame.I have tried with
WindowFocusListener.But then my actionListner is not working i.e, all
the buttons of that JFrame are not working.
plz help.

Hi, I've the following components in a 6x6 gridbaglayout using java 1.4 and
windows L&F on win2k:
jlabel    jcombo    jlabel    jcombo    jlabel    jcombo
jlabel    jcombo    jlabel    jtextfield   jlabel    jcombo

Can someone point me to a good, clear example of a GUI (preferably in an open
source project so I can look at more than just the GUI) written following the
MVP pattern. It'd be great if it was an MDI, but then it'd be perfect so I'm
grateful for anything usable/readable. :)

At the moment, my program continuously reads data from a Socket
and causes its display within a JFrame without user intervention.
When the program is done with that particular JFrame,
The program should make it go away.

I'm writing a GUI that can be used to interface with a directory server
using JNDI.  Unfortunately not all the possible errors are Exceptions
that have been defined with the JNDI API. Things like invalid passwords
will cause an error message to go to the console but I'd like to ...

Hey all,
I currently have a JTextArea that I append a bunch of strings to and it
displays quite a bit of information for a certain file format.
What I want to do is changed this to a JEditorPane and load it with the

We have a requirement where we need to drag-n-drop windows shortcuts
from the Desktop to our Java Swing frame. Once dropped on to our Java
frame, the shortcut must retain the same associated image. On double
clicking the image/shortcut in our java swings frame, it should launch

I am a VB programmer trying to learn Java with JBuilder Foundation.
I am looking for a Java combobox component with a multicolumn dropdown
to use in my database app, and also a grid that will support embedding
other controls such as a multicolumn combobox within one of the grid

Does any one now how to move
JInternalFrames title pane (place it on right
side for example)?
Thanks

Has anyone figured out how to make tabAreaBackground transparent?  I
override the tabbedpaneUI#paintTabArea   like so:
protected void paintTabArea(Graphics g, int tabPlacement, int
selectedIndex) {

What books, articles, etc. would you recommend on good GUI design principles
and practices?  (The recommendations can be programming language agnostic.)
Thank you.
Dave

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:

For whatever reason, I am unable to alter the value in the UIManager
LookAndFeelDefaults table. I must be doing something stupid, and would
appreciate any direction here.
For example, if, as shown in the following lines, I set the L&F to "Motif,"