Sunday, April 27, 2008

Make a beep!

Hi.

A reader asked how to get his program to make a BEEP whenever a user clicks a button. The simplest way of doing this is to import the java.awt.Toolkit library and then add the following code to your application :

Toolkit beeper = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
beeper.beep();

Until next time.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Center a JFrame or JDialog on a parent window or the desktop.

I often get asked how to center a JFrame or JDialog on the desktop or another frame. It's really a quite simple operation. All you need is the following command :

theFrame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

This command will set the frame object as CENTERED on the main desktop of the current operating system. If you replace the null with the name of another object, like a parent frame in a JDialog window you can center the JDialog on a JFrame.

Easy!

Friday, April 25, 2008

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