I would like to start a Java program when the user clicks on an HTML
<img src="file.jpg" .../> image.  I have been told I first need to
interpret, say with JavaScript.  I am not real good with JavaScript
but will do so if I must.

I just have to translate an old Swing application to SWT/JFace...
Everything seemed just fine ... but then I ran into something like:
Font ttfBase = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new
FileInputStream("myfont.ttf"));

Why is it I can set a JTextField to be greyed out by calling
setEditable(false) and it turns grey and can't be edited but if I do the
same thing with a JTextArea the only effect is that it can't be edited
(meaning it doesn't change colors)? How can I also get it to change

I have observed a consistent problem with applets not accepting
keyboard input.  This manifests itself when I put a JTextArea into a
JInternalFrame in an applet.  The applet will work perfectly with
appletviewer, but when it is brought up in any of the Mozilla-based

In my program it is necessary to recieve data from server. The data needs to
be written in a JTextArea component, but my GUI must not freeze while
recieving data from server and writing it in JTextArea. So I need to use
threads, or SwingWorker. I saw many instances of SwingWorker ...

calling remove(Component foo) of a Container class usually releases all
references to foo used by awt internally, and when I delete all my
local references to that Component, it will be garbage collected once
the garbage collector is invoked.

I would like to know if it is possible to handle keystrokes like
'ctrl-x' + 's' (as in emacs) using standard KeyStroke.getKeyStroke
methods? Or do I have to override default eventhandling on some lower
level? Just curious to know if it can be done the easier way.

Hello again. I've only included two of the 13 programs for this game.
The main program projectJS.java is giving me compile errors and the
other program containing
private BoardPanel boardPanel;

I have added JTextAreas on JPanel . JPanel is added on JScrollpane whose
horizontal policies are never.
this code shows full panel in jdk1.3 but in 1.5 it only shows half  of the
textareas why is this happening?

Beg pardon the "stoopid" question, but is there any easy way to "reverse"
the displayed
order of items in a JList?
I've got a JList that gets its data from a DefaultListModel and the first

Hi, i would like to get help on this
i have a JFileChooser... "fc" i am doing showOpenDialog(WHATEVER);
WHATEVER: i have tried many things... what Component could be?
but i always get this message:

I'm trying to use the Visual Editor in Eclipse to design some SWT gui. The
problem is that I don't have the option SWT in the VE menu. The Swing and
AWT components are working fine.
I have installed the latest version of the VE project and as I said, it

Can an application written in Java & SWT can be minimized in the
notification area (Sytem Tray) like MSN Instant Messenger or E-mule ?
Apparently it's possible for Windows :
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/systemtray/
index.html

I'm developing an application in which i'm parsing a csv file and
uploading into a database. when i parse , i store the elements in an
arraylist of bean. and then i pass that array list to upload onto
database. But it takes huge amount of time, so i decided to display a