i'm trying to write a line component which can be dragged around and
which can have context menus. The code is
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import java.awt.Shape;

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* How best to prevent blocking of EDT by slow GUI stuff?!
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In an ActionListener associated with a JMenuItem I had

I need to display a JTable.  In this case the width of each cell in the last
column varies - it's a collection of text & color swatches, represented by
JLabels and JPanels stuffed into a containing JPanel.
I can get a vertical scroll bar to appear by putting enough entries in the

I have written this small test code to show the difference in the
graphical output of 2 different JVMs i.e. Apple JDK 1.5.0 and Windows
JDK 1.5.0_13. When I execute this code in Apple JVM, I can see the
message "Hi There" quite clearly. Whereas, in Windows JVM, the message

I have a bufferedImage of the type BYTE_INDEXED. What are the byte
values for the color red? How does a byte code for RGB values?
Thanks for your help,
-Paul Klemstine

I have a JTabbedPane with one tab that is a WebBrowser component that
is provided by JDIC. I would like to give the user the ability to move
the tabs position, but when I do this to this particular tab, JDIC
crashes: "JDesktop Integration Components binary has encountered a

I am just wonder why in JTable
There are
TableCellEditor getCellEditor()
TableCellEditor getCellEditor(int row, int column)

My question is related to a typical example in a spreadsheet where I
can have an arbitrary component ontop of a scrollable table, which
should scroll along with the table.
The position of the overlaid component is arbitrary. A typical example

I want to put a JSlider underneath a label explaining what it is there
for. I have used a Box object instantiated with the createVerticalBox
constructor. The problem is that the text and the slider has a bad
alignment. Is there any way to make them both centered or justified to

        I have an application in Java Swing that has around 40
Jpanels with equal number of images on them and each panel will have
some other components also. I want ton find the amount of RAM the
application requires to run and also the memory requirement of each