any ideas where I'm going wrong with this?
This works:
  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
    "Something nasty happened",

Im new in java/swing and im a spanish speaker, so hope you understand
me :)
We are starting a java migration project and we make our first
application to see what problems we encounter, one of this problems is

Not sure if you are familiar with JGoodies - but running the 'Tiny' I
get this great looking user interface that looks like XP.
I tried to just copy the pertinent lines but my app is ignoring,
without error the following code

So ive been beating my head against a wall for a day now.
Im trying to have the most recently added row to a JTable get selected.
I listen for INSERT events on the table model, then I ask the table's
ListSelectionModel to select the inserted row.  For some reason the

HI is it possible to create classes dynamically and if so how? What im
trying to do is have a user enter names into a textbox and use these
names to create instances of classes dynamically. the code below doesnt
work once never mind for numerous classes?????

  Basically, I need to be able to have an EDITABLE document (in a
JEditorPane or JTextPane) with active hyperlinks.  All I have read
seems to say that the HyperlinkListener only works for non-editable
documents.  To get around this, I have been trying to imbed buttons

I'm working on drawing a gradient.  The Java Developers Almanac just
casts paint()'s Graphics parameter to Graphics2D.
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.awt/color_SetGradient.html
How reliable is this?  Will a JPanel's paint (Graphics) method always

There is setEditable(boolean b) for JComboBox, but not
for JList, why?
How do I make JList editable?
Thanks!

Hi, iam first time user of swing and I created a GUI with all the
objects, but unable to give proper dimensions for the labels and lists.
When i give the dimensions with "setBounds" it is showing some weird
features with overlapping of one label in other or list. It would be

I've written a small GUI application using Java Swing. I now wish to
provide my users with some Help, but how is this normally done?
Is it simply a HTML or XML file that displays in a JTextArea?
Thanks for any advice,

Hi Team,
Iam a new learner to Java and Swing. I dont have any programming
experience before. Iam trying to create a GUI with a Textarea to enter
the query terms, Get Abstracts button and two scroll panes with text

Can I get a JAVA GUI library that can be make winxp style well.
help me....

I have googled and found a lot of posts on this topic, but none that
seem to address the issue I am having.  I am sure it is something
trivial I am overlooking.
What I would like to accomplish is invoking JComponent.paint(Graphics),

I'm looking for opensource XML GUI databinding components.
Adam Erbo

I have a JToolbar on a panel, which is floatable
If I make the toolbar floating in its own window and make the panel
setVisible( false), the toolbar is still visible
I want the toolbar also to disappear