I want to create a small popup information bubble (similar to the ones
that pop up above the task bar in windows), but I cant seem to figure
out how to do this, if someone could point me in the right direction, I
would greatly appreciate it.

            I have a rather general question.
            The JTable has grid lines but how do increase the size of the
grid lines something like when the graphics 2D class uses the BasicStroke
class to increase the size of lines it draws

I am parsing a string and getting a certain character to be compared to
the = symbol.  For some reason even though the character at the position
 I want is an = symbol the equals() method always returns false. Why?
Character ch = new Character(dnArray[0].charAt(3));

I would like to create some GUI which could be run just like applets on
browser with the new SWT.
Please let me know if it is possible to do that. Because i would be
programming wiht some componenets which should have the drag and drop

If you were embarking on a 3-5 year project, architected from the
ground up with a fat client to provide a rich complex user interface.
50% of the users running on Windows.  50% users running on linux.
Would you use Swing or SWT/JFace?

We try to change the JDK version for a graphical Java Web application (based
on ILOG JViews framework).
Everry thing used to work fine on JDK 1.3.1 but when we run on JDK 1.4.2 we
have a NoClassDefFoundError.

I am looking for an Up/Down control just like JSpinner but without text
area - only up/down button.
Is there such thing?
Can I modify JSpinner so it doesn't show text?

I encounter a problem which seems to be simple :
how to open a modal dialog from an applet ?
Before java 1.5, i did it by creating a JDialog  with the frame owner :
(Frame)myApplet.getParent(), but this doesn't work anymore ! The cast fails

Is it possible to give focus to a Java frame on a keyboard shortcut,
even if that window is minimized / disabled / unfocused... ?
Do you know any native library to do that under win XP ?
thank you for any clue :)

I have a problem:
I created component that extends JComponent. I would like to put it on the
JPanel wherether I want, so I use setBounds() method. But when I use it,
the component doesn't show. When I use Layout on the JPanel, then component

I want client GUI having a JFileChooser for
selecting file from server file system. Is it
ever possible? If the answer is yes, then
how?  --- TIA.

i'm having a problem with custom cell renderer for JTable. i want mt
table cells to have beautiful rounded corners (line border with rounded
corners is not giving the desired result).
so i created a Cell Renderer with an image with rouded corners.

Please help me in the following problem. How can I combine 2 actionlistener
in order to
handle:  if  ( (currentPattern == names[1])  && (currentSec==level[1]) )
{  add.setEnabled(false); }

Precondition:  I do *not* want to extend JTree...
I do have the dnd dragging action working with the code below.
I now want to have the target light up - adding minimal code of course.
thanks!

Any experience with SVG ?