is there any event in Java that reports this?

Hi, I have some code running which consists of a GUI. At one point, a long
running task must be executed. So the code looks like:
// some code
// progress monitor code

How does one access the grey-colored portion of a JTable that has not
been occupied by the rows? I want to fill color in that part. If
someone has an idea how t odo it, please tell me.
Thanx and Regards,

in my application i want to use date picking facility for report
generation. How can I achieve it? Do i have to make bean component? or
similar technology?
plz help me out.

How to shake a window as MSN or Yahoo Messenger does when someone typed
a message to you?

Does anybody know of a class which provides tabbed panes similar to
Swing's JTabbedPane, but allows optional close buttons on the tabs? It
would need to be LGPL or BSD or similarly licensed.
This follows on from a question I asked in comp.lang.java.programmer. I

Good morning/afternoon/evening,
I have a problem with painting some dots, First off, the dots placing
information gets read from a file, and directly painted onto a canvas
which resides in a scrollpane.

I'm trying to create something that handles more than one event in the
same window here is a bit of code that wont work right.
if(e.getSource().equals((JButton)mapButtons[0]))
    {

I can't get my fonts to work with Java. All other (non-java)
applications can display it, but when I load it and display it I get
bunch of boxes. I've even tried createFont method and loaded it directly
from a file, same result. Can anybody tell me how this is done? Thank you.

I am using a ScrollPane which encapsualtes a JList and the list
elements response for mouse scroll keys but it is not responding to the
upward and downward arrow keypress.Can anyone give any idea how to
solve this.

In my Swing application i'm using a few cell renderers for JTable. I'm
using an image with rounded corners, shadows and all to give the cell a
very good look. But if the cell is not exactly same dimension as that
of the image, the image is getting truncated. Is there any way to make

When I use JOptionPane's static methods to display some JTextFields,
initial focus is on one of the buttons, is it possible to set initial
focus to the JTextField?
example code:

I'm using BoxLayout and I can't get components to show as I want. I
create components, do setBounds on them, make everything visible and it
dosen't work! It only works if I set bounds after I show them (make them
visible).. why? Of course I want to set where the components will ...

I am trying to create a modal JInternalFrame.
There are the following code in the constructor
       JPanel glass = new JPanel();
       glass.setOpaque(false);

Here is the code.  It runs but does not display the labels.  Why?
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;