Frame and JFrame's SetIconImage() does not respect transparency in Vista
when using a JVM prior to 1.6.
Any ideas on possible alternatives (other than drawing the entire frame
myself)?

For a class I am taking I have to write a Battleship game.  I am using
Swing to program a GUI and I would like to make it so that there are
two panes holding the 11x11 grid for the spots on the computer's and
the player's boards.  I would like the position of the ships on the

how can i set right alignment of jtextpane?

I have a series of buttons name
btnPXxY where X and Y are numbers ranging from 0 to 10 in a grid of
buttons.  For example, a button name btnP0x0 and another named btnP0x1
etc.

I'm very new to JGoodies and am trying to understand its general
approach.
Firstly, do you know of any forum, mailing list, etc., that is devoted
exclusively to JGoodies?

I have written a program that heavily uses JComboBoxes to have the
user select some stuff. In oder to allow for a quick exchange between
JComboBox and JList, I have coded a class that could serve as Model
for both JComponents.  In my program it is frequently the case that

Good Morning/Evening
Could someone please show me how to draw just a simple line from say
1,1 to 25,25 using the 2d package?
Thank you,

Hello dudes,
I found out if you editing a JTable cell without hit
the Enter or Tab key. Then the new cell value won't take
effect. For example, a table cell value is "abc" and

I started a small Java program just as something fun to do. It simulates
a sonar, like on a submarine.  Right now I'm at the point where I have
multiple objects moving independently around the sonar screen with a
rotating needle.  I keep track of the speed/location/etc. of each ...

I have a superclass, guiModule, that is a super class for several panes I'm
using that are in a JTabbedPane.  In the superclass I have specified that
it implements FocusListener and have the focusGained() method in it.  I
would have thought that when I selected a particular tab on ...

A lot of the Swing examples and tutorials out there do a great job of
teaching the API, but not such a great job showing some best practices
that are used in real-world Swing apps.
Does anyone have any favorite resources for such best practices?

There is setEditable(boolean b) method in JTree class.
But I can't found the similar method in
JTable, JTextField, etc.
I don't want user edit the cells in my JTable or JTextField.

I am new to Java, I have built a GUI that contains a JButton.  I would
like this JButton to execute a windows batch file when the user clicks
the button.  Below is my attempt, please help.
private void jButton2ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt)

I am trying to add two buttons in table header for different
functionalities. I want to catch pressed / unpressed event of the
buttons separately. Is it possible to have two components in table
header and they should work independently accroding to events fired on

Is there a powerful/user-friendly tool for artist/non-programmer to
develop the web page (i.e. a tool-generated HTML source file w/
possibly some Javascript code generated for some special effects), and
have automatically/generated call to make a server-side process (i.e.