I am in need of retrieving the track size of a vertical
JScrollBar, in particular its height.
Also, I would need to get hold on where the track
starts within the scrollbar, I guess this could be calculated by

In order to programmatically select a table
row, we call add(or set)RowSelectionInterval(i, i)
and for column selection we call
add(or set)ColumnSelectionInterval(i, i).

I have a JTree with a custom Node class. The jtree represents an LDAP
structure so container nodes can contain varying numbers of children. I
want to show the children count in a tooltip and I found code online
that shows how to do this however I thought it was supposed to

i had an Observer's class which has     public void update(Observable t,
Object o) method and it had to call paint() method of Graphics with
parameter Object o
plz suggest me.

Folks i have a simple program
mport java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

I have a JPopupMenu that is not part of a JMenuBar, it is brought up
next to a button in the JFrame when pushed.  Using a MouseListener, the
button show()s the JPopupMenu when the button is pressed, and the
JPopupMenu disappears when the button is released.  The mouse can be

When I set the border of a JTable, for example to
new LineBorder(Color.RED), the border seems to go
around the cells of the table body, not including
the column headers.  This isn't the effect

Perhaps this is a stupid question.
If you use the usual way to start a Swing GUI
   public static void main(String[] args) {
        invokeLater(new Runnable() {

I'm a bit new with SWT/JFace and I am having problems displaying table
- I would appreciate if someone could help me out.
As mentioned, I'm trying to use TableLayout to display table data:
    Group group=new Group(this,SWT.SHADOW_ETCHED_IN);

Hey all. I need to popup a window without the user necessarily noticing
it immediately. I'm using a technique involving a JWindow that starts
mostly offscreen and slides in to reveal information.
The problem is that when I surface the JWindow with setVisible(true),

is there a way to change all fontsizes within a Java Swing Application.
Something like
UIManager.setGlobalFontsize(+3) ;  // +3 means that all default fonts are increased in size by 3 ?
Greets

I am trying to make JTabbedPane as what IDEs have; a tabbed panel with
buttons
I mean I try to make JTabbedPane as
[Button] [Tab 1] [Tab 2] ... [Tab x] [Button]

I need to put a JCoboBox into on of the JTable's columns header.
Can anyone point me to a sample? I can't find any.
Thanks,
Alex

I was super excited at the look and feel of the forms while creating
and previewing them in the netBeans form designer because it looked
just like windows. but when I ran the app the form's look and feel was
very different (javaish that is). can anyone tell me... is there a way

   I am trying this sample applet on 2 different Mac OS X's
1) Mac OS X 10.3.9
   Safari 1.3.2 (v312.6)
   JVM - 1.4.2_09