I have a short swing program (see below) that dislpays a HelloWorld
frame. It compiles fine, but runtime behavior is a bit awkward. To
wit:
(1) I run the program. It shows a nice 100x100 empty panel. I move the

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So here's my next swing question: I've got a combo box with an action
listener. When you make a selection from the combo box, the action
listener fires off and does a bunch of stuff that takes a few seconds
to execute.

I am trying to read data off a serial port and then display the data
in a GUI and I cannot seem to access the GUI in order to do this.  For
some reason whenever I try to append to the text box the program seems
to stall out and I cannot figure out why?  Any help would be

I have a JComboBox that looks like this:
http://www.geocities.com/tekmonk2005/pix/ComboBoxColors.jpg
I would like to use the color on the top title bar to use it as the
background of the selected item in the combobox, so it kind of looks like a

I'm using TinyLnF package (http://www.muntjak.de/hans/java/tinylaf/
index.html) for look and feel in my swing application. I'm facing a
problem there. To sort tables i'm using TableRowSorter
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All,
Someone helped me with this code a few weeks ago, and it works
great!  However I wanted to know if I could alter it. That is, the
output variable is a char. I am trying to see if I can combine the

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In java in object only the nonstatic members are present & the static
members donot reside in the object but we are accessing static members
using object reference technique.
since the static member do not reside in the object then how we are

I have a container, a JFrame, with a JTabbedPane inside of it.
The Dimension of the JFrame I set based on the screen size
Inside of the JTabbedPane I create three, two or just one text area.
These JTextAreas are placed inside of a JScrollPane and separated by

I wonder if I there is a strong and easy to use API to represent Graph
that is suitable for my own data structure program.
Simply in my program i have built-in linked list of objects
called Transaction class each Transaction represents vertex in a

Hi folks. I'm trying to figure out which version of java I have
installed. The versioning is a bit unclear to me: on the one hand, I
read about "sdk"'s with versions like 1.5, 1.6, etc. On the other, I
see "Java 5" and "Java 6" out there.

i am using a JTextArea for displaying multi-line text. the component
has been set to read only and background color adjusted so it appears
more like a label. i am adding this component to container with
gridbaglayout and it has been given HORIZONTAL fill and weightx as 1.0

When you code i18 GUIs you must pay attention to this in order for your GUI
not to look good for say English and half way cropped for a language like
German that tends form words by combining adjectives and nouns, so they
have incredibly long words you can utter in one breath

Hi there folks!
I have a program, with MANY lines of code, so I will not post the
entire program here. However, this is my problem.
I have a GUI program based on swing which contains a JList: