I'm currently starting my swing application like this:
public static final void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
 final MyApplication myApp = new MyApplication();
 EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

I am working on making an applet into a  JFrame GUI and getting three
compile issues.
C:\j2sdk\bin\orderForm.java:189: 'class' or 'interface' expected
  public static void main( String[] args )

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably inexpensive) GUI editor out
there for Java, similar to Visual C++, where I can create a GUI and
edit the code-behind without affecting the GUI itself (and vice versa).
I have been using JFrameBuilder - not too impressed - it seems

Good evening!
I don't manage to make an AWT-Frame with a GridBagLayout display a
Canvas. This Canvas will be displayed as soon as I use an other than
the damned GridBagLayout. Unfortunately I have to use that

This must be a FAQ but I haven't found a completely satisfactory answer.
SHORT VERSION
How to set a minimum size on a JFrame?
(Bonus points for not using a ComponentListener)

i 'have a JDialog with "lots" of JComponent in it. I would like to set
the size of the JDialog with the preferred size of itself, but it
doesn't work (the preferred height seems too small). here is a sample code.
I guess i must add some height, but which one?

Can someone give me a solid example of how to use the HTMLDocument
.insertBeforeEnd
.insertAfterEnd
.insertBeforeStart

I am trying to display a couple of files on JTextPane. Each file is to
be displayed in a single line. If i have 5 files then the entire lot is
to be displayed in 5 different lines. Please give your suggestions.
Thanks,

I have a multiline textarea. I need to show certain lines as error. I
was
planning to color them in red.The requirement is lets say I have a
textarea with n lines. I want to highlight some  lines based on line

I'm looking for something free, or very cheap, that will allow me to
drop components into a gui and write the code FOR APPLICATIONS, not APPLETS.
Does anyone know of anything?  The book I picked up on Eclipse didn't
seem to do it.  Everything else seems to only want to do applets.

I experienced the following problem: I have a JTable and one column has
editor and renderer as JComboBoxes, moreover the JComboBox is editable
(editor and renderer extend JComboBox so in their constructors I put
setEditable(true)). Now when I click on a cell of that column I can

The default behaviour for tool tips and JSplitPane seems to be that the tool
tip text is not displayed when the mouse is over the divider.  How would I
go about modifying this so that the text is displayed on the divider as
well?  I am using Mustang b86.

I have a 10 MB file that has to be dipslayed on the JTextPane. I have
been using the read method of StyledEditorKit to load the file. But it
is taking minutes for the TextPane to display the contents.
Can this be done more efficiently, so that it takes a few seconds to

Hello everyone, I've met a problem when deploying the swt application.
for example, I have a MenuDemo and it can be runned using Eclipse
3.1.2.But I want to run it in command line mode.
So I tried this way.

A GUI designer has asked us to make a JPopupMenu
where the menu items become visible when the mouse
goes over them, instead of when they are clicked.
It works pretty well with a MouseAdapter that overrides