I'm wondering how one could detect if a button (say a toolbar button)
was clicked while the ctrl-key was held down. Is it possible to
detect this modifier key in the actionPerformed() method of the
action button itself?

I have some code snippets that I need help to understand:
1.
public static final int VIEW_PRIVATE = 1 << 103;
What is VIEW_PRIVATE equal to?

Hello friends , Here is a nice article which I have found while
surfing , it is about the ten common errors which may be made by any
Java Programmer while Programming. The article lists all those
mistakes and their solution.

Hello NG, if I try to make a Java-Update from Vers. 6.7. to 6.17, I get
the following message:  Decompression of the core files failed. What can
I do to prevent it? (I am working with Windows 7 and Mozilla Firefox
3.5.6) Thanks for all answers! Heinz

I have some experience with programming in languages such as C++,
Fortran, VBA, Matlab, etc.  but i've never created a standalone
executable program.  I would like to do this and have a modern looking
GUI.  I've been teaching myself Java because that seems to be what

I am retrieving the selected item from a list/menu component on an
HTML page. The said value is passed as a parameter to a method
initiated through <jsp:useBean.
I am aware that when the user selects an item from the list/menu an

NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta is the first IDE to offer support for the entire
Java EE 6 spec. Highlights include support for JSF 2.0/Facelets, Java
Persistence 2.0, EJB 3.1 including using EJBs in web applications,
RESTful web services, and GlassFish v3. . PHP support has been

An old Swing's rule says that all the UI operations should be carried
out in the event-dispatching thread, and other operations should be
done in other threads. I have written a GUI application which uses
multiple threads. Among them, there is a SwingWorker thread which can

I am investigating using threads using Executors/Callable instead of
the Runnable implementation i normally use.
To simplify my problem i created some code which is shown below.
My expectation was that immediately after submitting a thread using

I wanted to use LaTeXDraw, which is a .jar file. Libs, etc., are
included in the good folders, but when I run
$ java -jar LaTeXDraw.jar, the loading screen of LaTeXDraw appears,
but, when the loading is finished, nothing but a mere window, with the

here's the example applet:
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~jimmc/stringart/stringart.html
while experimenting, i've entered trig functions that extend the x and y beyond default
value 0 thru 1, so some kind of user-config copy of all fields would be handy for record

I am confused by some of my friends.
I think the certification exam is taken place in somewhere, such as
computer training centers etc. instead of
taking the exam through the Internet. Could anyone give me a firm

    I am reading different files and extracting date out of them .
But dates are appearing to be from different timezones ( or from
different countries ) , hence I am receiving
CODE

I have a problem, and I'm new to javascript, and can someone help me?
I created a page that has three image blocks with images scrolling
randomly.  See www.sipawards.com/results.php (not my original design, I
only had to do the search query, and then add in the images).

I have an all purpose Database Class. There are two methods in this
class: DBConnect() and DBClose().
(DBConnect)----------------------------------------------------------
package Program;