Hi again i'm posting to ask the question what is the best way to put an
image on a gui background but still have the ability to place buttons
and text fields on top of it.  My program has a map and I want to place
buttons on each region of the map and some text fields here is how i

I have a table that shaws data from a MySQL database. The table in DB
has two fields ID (auto incremented) and Name. The table on the
JINternalFrame shaw these data sorted by name. To insert a new record I
call a JDialog to type in info and by a button do an insert in the DB.

To display a message in a GUI, I am using a JTextArea defined as:
    JTextArea message = new JTextArea(1,1);
To put the desired real data in the JTextArea (and thus display on the
GUI) I use a statement like this:

I created a popup with JOptionPane, it works fine except I can NOT
resize the popup window.
Here are the codes:
JPanel myPanel = new JPanel();

I am having problems working out how to override setValueAt() in the
example below. The method receives a parameter of type Object which has
the value of the edited table cell, I want to assign the edited value to
an object of a more specific type but I cant work out how to do ...

I have some code like this:
int pos = scrollPane.getVerticalScrollBar().getValue();
//some code to refresh html page on jeditorpane
scrollPane.getVerticalScrollBar().setValue(pos);

I've used JTables with renderers before, but I've never tried this
particular task.  I'd like to have a JTable whose cells contain JTables.
 (I've tried other approaches, including JSplitPane, but none did
exactly what I was looking for.)  Creating the array of JTables isn't a

I am required to change the color-scheme of the unselected and selected
tabs of a JTabbedPane. Any idea how to go about it?
Regards,
Ankur

I'm trying to make a JSplitPane and fill it with some text boxes. The
top box has a JScrollPane, the bottom is just a JTextArea, but might
become a JSplitPane in the end. The problem is, the split bar is simply
not there at all. I don't get it. In the following code, JSP is the

I've to transform some JCSpinField in a standard Java class.
Can someone help me?

I am working on a GUI with movable icons, similar to Windows Explorer. I
represent icons as class extended by SWT Canvas. However, I would need
the space around the icon to be transparent. Is there a way to
accomplish this, or should I change design and use something apart from

I have equipped a class, derived from JInternalFrame, with a
MouseListener and can catch the events, when I click the mouse inside
the frame. MouseClicks inside the title area are unfortunately not caught?
Anyone got an idea how to do it? My aim is to create two separate

Dear friends,
We are two university students from Greece and we are writing to ask for
your precious help with Java & Visual J++.
We would like to know if there are any good routine libraries that will

I want to create a 3d map so that you can see roads and elevation (i.e.
terrain... so you can see hills).  What objects should I use in the java3d
hierarchy to achieve this?
The package has a bunch of geometric objects such as Box, Cone, Cylinder and

I've posted this on a couple other Java groups, and just discovered this
one.  I'm not sure if this is the right group for a question like this, but
it seems the most likely on my ISP's server.  So...  Here goes...
In a Java class that I've been taking this semester, we've been ...