Suppose you’ve written an application with a GUI using Swing components such as JTable or JTextPane. All these components are derived from the abstract class javax ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

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Hi guys,<br><br>I'm writing a custom JDialog window by extending the JDialog class. All good so far. However, there is one problem that bothers me: The components won't display until I manually resize ...

Encoding and displaying characters from different languages used to mean working between multiple different formatting systems within the same project. Even though the introduction of Unicode ...

Note: Click here to download the source code for this article. When developing Java code using a GUI component I have never used, I like to experiment by writing small sample programs, exploring the ...