I am working through the design of a disp[lay for a CAD/GIS program
written
in Java. I haven't decided for sure if I will use Swing or SWT for the
GUI yet.

I want to use PopupFactory to popup some pane, could anyone help me
with a sample code or explain.
Thanks all.

Hiya, I think this is a fairly common JPanel related question and would
love any help,
I want to store the width,height,x/y coords of a rectangle in an
object, then draw it onto a JPanel. (I can get this far)

I would like to draw multiple partially overlapping figures in xor mode (applying the even-odd rule) and then place the drawing on another image.
I've  tried this on a JPanel:
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent( g );

Ok this is really strange, none of the html tags seem to work under my
linux machine and it's running java version 1.4.2... they should work.
Here's a simple example, all I get is the JLabel with all the html
showing as regular text.

I have worked with VB6 & Windows forms VB.NET. I always felt good about
the ease of use of VB to create windows forms/desktop application. I
recently started to learn about Java GUI applications using Swing API.
So im interested in knowing the benifits/drawbacks of swing over the

In my application, When I Select File -> Print option the following
code executes fine, Where as I pressed CTRL + P from Keyboard my system
is hanging at this statement PrintService service =
ServiceUI.printDialog(null, 200, 200,printService, defaultService,

I need some help from a real Swing expert. Please!
I'm trying to create a JTable, that saves & restores *precise* column
widths, with dynamic paging (row count fits actual column widths).
Evertyhing works great, expect the column widths.

I want to make a jtable uneditable but still allow double clicks to
register so that a dialog window appears instead of the cell editor
being invoked. What is the easiest way to make the jtable uneditable or
at least disable the celleditor from being invoked when i double click

I am tring to add several small JPanel to a big JPanel (using
GridLayout), and display image on these small JPanel (By overiding the
paintComponent method), but I can't get any images displayed. The brief
codes are showing below:

i need to be able to print HTML. Right now, i'm using a JEditorPane with
a modified version of this:
PrintUtilities class
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Swing-Tutorial/Swing-Tutorial-Printing.html

I want a JComboBox that shows names (e.g. Mary, Fred, Alice, Joe) but
whose getSelectedItem() returns a code (e.g. 21, 17, 3, 11).
Should I ...
Plan A: Implement a ListCellRenderer for `new JComboBox(codeArray)`

Could anyone tell me about Unicode programs cioding with Java.
Any Weblinks, tutorials, whitepapers etc...
Thanks

If i press a key and hold it down, on MS Windows one keyPressed event
will be fired. On X11 (Linux), however, it keeps fireing keyPressed,
keyReleased, keyPressed, keyReleased, keyPressed, keyReleased, ...
There is a bug report at for JDK 1.1.6

Do any of you all use Eclipse to build your GUIs?  And if so what tools
do you use?
I ask because I have not found any suitable plugins really that grab me
to download and spend time learning it.  The only really good gui