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How do I tab off a textarea in a Java application?

At work I am obliged to use a proprietary Java Web Start application for filling in certain forms. I suspect that the application uses Swing as its widget toolkit. I prefer to fill in the forms ...
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GUI Window for OpenSUSE

As per Question "Launch GUI programs from background service in Linux" I saved a.desktop with below contents: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Foo Viewer Comment= The best viewer ! ...
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How to create any application window that should not pass to projector screen on mac?

I want to know there is any way to write a application on mac, and that application window should only visible on screen even that system connected to projector screen. For Example: If i write some ...
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Java Swing apps steal/don't release focus in KDE

Kubuntu 14.04 (64bit) with KDE 4.13.3, Java Oracle 1.7.0_80-b15 This problem first occured in 12.04 and persists. Java version does not affect the behaviour, i.e. the same happens with 1.6 to 1.8. ...
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What could cause an autolaunch of an Internet Explorer process on Windows 7

We have a very thorny issue going on with an application in a corporate environment. Any clue, no matter how remote, is getting some investigation. We have a client application, written in Java ...
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repeated IO on file atiumdva.cap interferes with application functionality

Our java swing application runs on Windows 7 (32 bit) and is having some serious issues. Our latest candidate culprit is that the system, at random intervals, performs millions of reads of 288 bytes ...
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Windows 8.1 Swing (Java) applications text rendering

The other day, I searched for a free UML editor tool, and as it turns out the best of them are implemented using the popular Swing framework, in Java. As it turns out, Windows 8.1 has some serious ...
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X11 forwarding affects Java Swing GUI dropdowns - Items not selectable, Menus collapse immediately, and so forth

Have a Java Swing app that is running on a Linux server and is being X displayed back via X11 forwarding. Cygwin is running on my workstation. Connection is made to the server using PuTTY with X11 ...
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Can't connect to X11 window server using ': 2.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable

I have connected Linux server (centos 64bit)using VNC viewer. Then I have tried to run java swing application using this command (java -jar app.jar). I am getting this error "Can't connect to X11 ...
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How can I make my ISO_Level5_Shift arrow keys work in Java Swing GUIs?

I have a keyboard layout that uses ISO_Level5_Shift to provide arrow keys. From my layout symbols file: key <AC06> { type[Group1]="EIGHT_LEVEL", [ d, D, ampersand, U2227, Home, Home, ...
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Java Swing over Remote Desktop - Strange, weird GUI squashing

I thought this question fits SuperUser more than StackOverflow because it's not about actual Java programming, though programmers might be more likely to encounter the problem. Anyway, let me start of ...
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Keybindings not working in Swing/AWT applications

Digging on problem with keybindings not working in PhpStorm IDE, I tried several Java applications and realized that keybindings with letter keys are not working in Swing/AWT applications on my linux ...
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How do I install the Visual Editor plugin for Eclipse?

Using the two newest versions of the Eclipse IDE, I have been unsuccessful in installing the Visual Editor for Eclipse. When trying to install the plugin after adding the repository, I get the ...
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