I have developed a Swing app that will run under JRE 1.4.2 and am new to
application skinning.
Can anyone provide pros and cons between GTK+ and SkinLF (or any other
L&F for that matter)?

The code below creates a JFrame and displays it.  Within JFrame is a
window which scrolls text.  If user does not interact with program the
most recently appended text is always visible, one way to look at this
behaviour is that veritcal scroll bar is attached to bottom of vertical

can some one please tell me how can i have cells with rouded corners in
a JTable. i think i need to write a cell renderer for that. but how
exactly it should be done, and can i use some image with rouded corners
to do that etc etc... Please advice. Thanks in advance

In JFileChooser, I need to replace the normal approve button with a
split button (like the one in microsoft applications). I can write my
own split button. But I don't see a way to replace the JButton with my
component. Is there a way to accomplish this?

I' ve a strange problem by using a JTextArea.
I want to program a chat application and I'm using a JTextArea to
display the conversation.
The text of one client that is send over sockets is used to call the

I posted this to cljp some time ago but got no solution. Maybe this group is
more appropriate:
I need to listen to an event that tells me when the user physically presses and
releases a key. I cannot achieve this easily with the normal keyPressed,

            I am currently trying to insert html tables into a Styled
Document contained in a JTextPane but so far have been unsuccessful.
            Does anyone know how to do this.
It would be great if someone could share this wisdom with me

Hallo zusammen,
wir schreiben eine Anwendung in Java, die nur auf Windows-Systemen
läuft, daher ein wenig Plattformabhängigkeit verträgt...
Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, die Menü-Taste (rechts zwischen Windows und

I want to drag rows up/down (for example, drag 3rd row to 1st row)
in JList. I setDragEnabled(true) for JList, but it doesn't work!
How do I drag rows in JList?
Thanks!

Well, I want to do is a kind of MacOSX taskbar but under windows. This
has already been done but I wanted to know if it was possible under Java

animations... ?

1.5.0.3 on Windows.
I'm having trouble initially sizing a JTable.
Here's a SSCCE:
package test;

I have to get euro prices in a dialog.
My solution would be a text field initially filled only with an euro
sign (undeleble) that
accept only digits, an optional comma and optional 1 or 2 digits for

Hi I have a split pane with the right side containing a panel.
On the panel is a JScrollPane with a JTable on top.
No scrollbars appear when the table is populated - rather the table
squishes the column widths in order to have all columns appear.

How can i convert a .bmp image to BufferImager in java?
Thank you

I must quit. After few months trying to print a chart which generate my
application, without outofmemory, I must ask you if you could suggest me
some packages whih can handle printing big graphics. Print preview is not
need to me because my own is not so pretty but it is fast, ...