Sun's Java UI toolkit, Swing, was a great idea, though of course it's taken a long time to come even close to its original ideals: a powerful, attractive, full ...

So, I'm a total newbie when it comes to Java, having to learn it on the fly here at my job.<BR><BR>The short form of my problem is that I'm trying to force a JPanel using a FlowLayout to restrict its ...

I'm currently working on a UI project using Java (1.4.2) Swing. My application is in the form of an MDI. I have a main JFrame which contains a JSrollPane, which contains a JDesktopPane.<BR><BR>I set ...

CheckboxTree is an open source, Swing-based tree component with a checkbox in each of its nodes, similar to those commonly found in installers but missing from the Swing GUI toolkit. In this article ...

The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them how to use the highly visual and user-friendly JOptionPane class from the Swing package. With one simple ...