Please is there another way how to change Font at runtime as using FontUIResource, for the whole AWT/Swing GUI, without any knowledge / interest about if there are local variables and type of JComp...

I know the fact that when I create an instance of a JComponent, it has it's own preferred size. Now let's suppose that I setPreferredSize that JComponent manually with a dimension of 0 x 0. And i w...

I have a JPanel that contains two JComponents, say two JButtons, btnLeft and btnRight. I want these two buttons aligned horizontally and I want btnLeft to be on the left side of the JPanel and btnR...

I'm trying to touch limits of MVC architecture in Swing, but as I tried everything all (from SwingWorker or Runnable#Thread) are done on EDT my questions: is there some limits or strictly depend...

I'm trying to create some special component for a specific purpose, on that component I need to draw a HTML string, here's a sample code: public class MyComponent extends JComponent{ public MyCo...

I am learning Java Swing and I appended a menuBar to the frame. By default this should call jframe.getContentPane().add(child). When I ran the script the menuBar didn't show up. But the button was ...

Has anyone come across a fully customizable (compatible with all standard LnF), fast file browser component for Java Swing ? I should be able to place this component to Netbeans UI palette and dra...

When is the size of the JComponent is calculated? After being shown in the screen or before that? if I send .getSize() message before .setVisible(true), would it give me the right answer? Thanks

I'm trying (testing something else) to add one JButton reference into two JPanels to test it, and it disappears from the first panel it was added to! So, can't a Swing component be added to multip...

I'm trying to create a program in Java that would display set of images one after another adjusting the size of the frame for each one. I'm extending JPanel to display an image like this: public c...

I'm making a physics simulator for fun and I was looking up graphics tutorials when I tried to figure out the difference between all these J's. Can somebody elaborate on them or perhaps provide a ...

I want to programmatically move my JLabel to a specific location inside my JPanel. I have tried setLocation(int x, int y), but it doesn't work. I am trying to not use any layout manager.