Have anyone encountered an algorithm for determining a color which is
the most distinctive from a set of existing colors?
I need this in a graphing application where the user can change the
color but still rely on the application to provide a new "distinctive"

I am trying to create an image on a button of an applet.
The code works perfectly when running in the eclipse applet viewer. However
when running it in a real web browser I see no image. I verified that the
image gets copied into the .jar file. Is there anything I have to do in

I have Two Combo Box ,
If I select an item in the first Combo Box ,The Respective Items should
be selected in the second Combo Box.I don't no which actionListener or
ItemListener i need to Write.I have Written the item Listener.

Folks
I am writing a program that displays  the name of file in JtextArea .
All i want to do , is when user click the link, the file is opened may
be in a new window.

Hi all (new to java)!
how can retrieve the strings a user has typed into the cells of the
jtable?
I dont quite understand the editor interface...

Hi. I have an applet that flickers. I'm a bit confused as to why this
happens as I have used double buffering and even when the applet is
running full speed CPU usage only goes up to about 50-60% I have
overridden the update method. I do have a non double-buffered verson of

Is there a similar function for Swing repaintImmediately in AWT?
I'm painting a high framerate animation in my program, and call to
repaint() actually makes it postpone repaint event, which is no good.
Such a function could also help me resolve the race condition I have

JDK 1.5.0.3.  First, here's an SSCCE that works fine
(I know the SSCCE is supposed to demonstrate the problem.
I can't make an SSCCE that does so):
import java.awt.*;

Hello everyone!  I was hoping I could get a few pointers on the code below.
Basically the program is using JMenus.  When the program first runs the only
menu that is there is Session wherein users may login to the system.  There
is a tab for an existing user and a new user.  The new ...

I have Created a textField,which Takes the Value from a Property File.I
want  to know,HOw to Update the TextField when the PropertyFile Changes
DYnamically i.e,Without Recompiling.Give some sample  Codes, which i
can make use.

I am new to java GUI
I am using jtext Field and want to display an error message  when the
user clicks a button withoug entering key
Here is my if else statemen

I'm making a few steps in java.awt and I found myself with this
problem.
When the user inserts a certain string in a TextArea, a KeyListener
does a few operations and clears the content of the TextArea (with

Hi i have an application that displays various user choosen images. Is
it possible for me to allow the user to click on an image and
subsequently have that image displayed larger in a popup window?? How
would i go about this?

I have always used the DefaultTableModel for JTables, no problem. It
seems that I have to use TableModel and AbstractTableModel because I
need to do some table sorting. I have it all setup having my TableModel
loaded into the AbstractTableModel sorting model which is loaded into ...

Iam wondering if there is a way to add row names to JTable as u can add  
colum names?
and how do I create multiple JTables in one gui?
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