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Revive tame page	13 Oct 2007 00:27 GMT	5
The http://www.physci.org/codes/tame/ is corrupted. Please recover the valuable page, please!
Table cell with a combobox that has a calendar inbeded to the combobox	12 Oct 2007 19:44 GMT	2
Hi can someone please help me,i have a table that one of the cell has a combobox,i wish to add a calendar to the combobox. Thank you.
Underlining a node in JTree	11 Oct 2007 18:17 GMT	2
How do I underline a specific node in JTree? I have searched a lot for it on the web, but I didn't find anything that has worked. I have been creating the tree by adding DefaultMutableTreenode instances. No changes to the look and feel or to the Renderers have been implemented in ...
JTextArea size problem.	11 Oct 2007 17:13 GMT	12
In a dialogue box, I want to display some text word-wrapped. I use a JTextArea and set word wrapping on. However, the height of the dialogue seems to be incorrectly based on the Textarea being one line high, (it is two lines high when wrapped).
Unpredictable Swing behaviour	10 Oct 2007 23:37 GMT	13
I have built an application based on JFrame and a BorderLayout with some added components. I have some very real problems with controlling how it behaves. Components are not necessarily shown until I resize the window. How do I solve that? I assume that it is some basic Swing
Usability: Which (menu) button?	10 Oct 2007 17:42 GMT	3
I have a few settings that are controlled via menu items. For binary values (true/false or on/off): Is it better to have regular menu items (JMenuItem) with changing text or better use toggle menu items (JCheckBoxMenuItem) with constant text
Align of images and text in "<html>..."	07 Oct 2007 14:52 GMT	2
Good day. I try to align image and text by center (on horizontal line) in JTable cell. I use "<html><img src="..." />Some text</html>" as a getValue. A text
Component Focus	05 Oct 2007 06:53 GMT	7
Is there a way to track component focus across an entire GUI? What I am trying to do is keep toolbars updated (by updating their corresponding actions) depending on what component is currently in focus.
Fonts	03 Oct 2007 00:47 GMT	3
I am no expert at Font and graphics. When I show(font = "Vrinda", PLAIN, 8 size) it looks bad on screen using graphics.drawString...in fact unreadable. I open MS Word and this font looks ok on the screen. When I print from our app, things look ok.
Glasspane Woes	01 Oct 2007 11:57 GMT	2
Trying to get a glasspane to intercept mouseDragged events and let the rootpane's GUI still function. Tried doing something like setBounds on the glasspane but no luck. Also tried doing a glasspane.setVisible on the mouseEnter and mouseExit events and still no luck. Perhaps it