I have a method that is computationally expensive. When a button is
pressed it can take a while before the gui responds again.
What I want to do is display an hour glass (ideally one that rotates as
the sand poors from one side to the other) while the application is

I´m new to Swing and I made a subclass of JComponent. For now its a
class that paints a image and listen to the mouse.
My problem is: my class gets painted only when I minimize, maximize or
something like that.

Could I drag and drop FROM Java Swing list onto a Windows Explorer? Any
help are appreciated.
Thanks

i am new to Java and was wondering if it possible
in SWT to name the widgets as it is done in Swing
with getName() and setName() for the components
Thanks

Does anyone have any information on how i would go about rendering .eps
files in swing, whilst preserving the "vector/scalable" property of them?
best regards
Costas

I have a regular JMenu, containing a bunch of JMenuItem. What I want to
do is when the user right-click (running under Windows) on any of the
items, it would pops up a JPopupMenu instead of actionPerformed on that
JMenuItem. However, it looks like the default behaviour of ...

hi im trying to create a media player using awt swing jframes etc etc i
just want one jbutton to play and one to stop the attached avi file, is
this possible to do or is it a total different ball game i merely only
want to play and stop the movie file

My program has a MenuFrame with  with MenuItems in it. If I click on
"New", I would like to open the Filedialog box. I am a beginner and
experimenting with some basic programs. I get an error <identifier>
expected, on the line where I have specified

I am trying to display non-Western languages in a robust and reliable
way, using Java.
Currently, on a westernised installation (i.e. en_US default locale,
etc), I decode the byte stream correctly, but my JTextArea simply

Is there an elegant way to work out the first and last rows of a JTable that
are visible on the screen at a particular time?  All I could come up with
was to go through each point on the screen and do a getRowAtPoint() and work
it out from that.  Is there a better or simpler way?

Salve
ho un problema con le jtable, forse è una cosa banale ma non avendole
mai usate non mi rendo conto.
In pratica ho una finestra dove nella jtable visualizzo i risultati di

I am a new programmer to Java. I was wondering, if one can create a GUI
and work with images (animation) using AWT alone, or the Swing
components would be essential too?
Thanks.

What is the command to pass parameters to an external progarm from Java
interface?
I mean how should the exec() command be modified in order to pass
paremeters to the external program..

It seems like if you create a Font
new Font("Arial", Font.PLAIN, 11);
in Java, and in HTML/CSS you specify two font sizes:
.Apx11 {

         I am curious whether a coding solution I did would  frowned
upon or considered "bad practice" - a term I use to mean the
opposite of "best practices".
    Let me give a little background. I have a program that uses Swing.