I am required to have check-boxes in a column of JTable so that i can
check the box and accordignly the row gets selected. My query is how to
get check boxes in the JTable in fiirst place, make them editable and
upon selecting it, the row gets selected i.e. colored.

i have a jtable built with the abstracttablemodel which has the
getclasscolumn implemented. as expected my boolean values in a column
appear as a checkbox . but when i make the whole jtable editable i dont
see the effect on my checkbox that appear in my jtable. why is so and

in my applet I need to draw an image selected by a JComboBox
on a JTabbedPane.
My init method:
   public void init() {

let's say i have a JScrollPane, with a view Component which is slow to
draw, and a viewport.
I would like to draw over the viewport part some texts, like a HUD in
video games. The text would never move in the viewport:

Recently I files this question in another group, but there is not much
traffic in that group so now I'm trying here:
Any ideas as to how my program can notice the user when some event happens?
The user should be noticed even if other applications are in the foreground.

See this:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelin
es/XHIGIntro/chapter_1_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000894-TP6
I think is one of the best guide to designing great GUI, not only on
apple...

I have a manifest file that I want included in a jar file.  I have a
class-path variable set in it that I need so that external jar files can
be used (since the main jar is too stupid to look at embedded jars). The
problem is that whether I use the java command to build my jar or ...

How can I print text in JTextArea by using java's Printable interface?
I want to Print(Hard Copy) it.

I had a couple of more  queries -
1) how to prevent swapping of the columns as in, by default the columns
in the JTable are not fixed in terms of their placement. They can be
very well swapped with one another. I want to prevent this.

Even though I remove the border from my JSplitPanes, there is still the
standard 3D white/darkgray shade on the dividers between my components.
Is there a way to remove these, to get the result much like in this
generated image:

I think I already know the answer to this, but...
While working through some examples in a Swing book, I encountered an
example program, that allowed the look and feel to be set by some
buttons.  This worked well for Metal, Motif, and Windows, but when I

Hi all...
I like to ask what is the recommended way of persisting the state of
components of a JFrame... for example the size and location of a JFrame,
the text in a text box, the isSelected property of a checkbox, the

I wonder if anyone knows what causes this.  I will chew on it myself,
but figured someone may have run into this before.
I am trying to create a JSpinner than lets you select a dollar amount.
saleAmountSpinner = new JSpinner();

If this isn't the right group, please direct me to an alternate.
I have a working prototype of an SQL database driven GUI written in
another language.  The other language is not OO.  I have been tasked
with developing the application in Java.

I am new to javaswing. I am making a front end that has a menu bar. I
just want to open a new panel once a user selects first menu from the
menu bar. I am using netbeans.
Thanks