Nick Meverden

int option = javax.swing.JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null, "Message Here", "Title Here", JOptionPane.OK_CANCEL_OPTION, JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE, null);

sun's swing tutorial

java.awt.event.WindowListener

javax.swing.text.JTextComponent.setCaretColor(java.awt.Color color)
[ August 14, 2006: Message edited by: Nick Meverden ]

java.io.FileReader
java.io.FileWriter

read up on those two API's for starters to read/write files.

You can build a StringBuilder or StringBuffer to setText() of the javax.swing.JTextArea

Those are some ideas to get you started...

CustomFocusTraversal

I would suggest checking out javax.swing.JSplitPane with two javax.swing.JPanels.
[ July 21, 2006: Message edited by: Nick Meverden ]

new java.awt.GridLayout(4,1)

Releases all of the native screen resources used by this Window, its subcomponents, and all of its owned children. That is, the resources for these Components will be destroyed, any memory they consume will be returned to the OS, and they will be marked as undisplayable.

The Window and its subcomponents can be made displayable again by rebuilding the native resources with a subsequent call to pack or show. The states of the recreated Window and its subcomponents will be identical to the states of these objects at the point where the Window was disposed (not accounting for additional modifications between those actions).

if you want to hide the JFrame use setVisible(false) if you want to remove the JFrame and release its resources use dispose()

final java.awt.image.BufferedImage i = javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/Pics/welcome.jpg")); JPanel p = new JPanel() { public void paintComponent(java.awt.Graphics g) { g.drawImage(i, 0, 0, null); } };

READ ME

check out javax.swing.JMenu.addMenuListener()

and

javax.swing.event.MenuListener/MenuEvent API's

No an ActionListener isn't going to do anything for JMenu. It would be more helpful if you tell us what your are trying to do. You want to show a dialog message when JMenu is clicked?

Nope, you would have to write it.