Swing

Where does a dialog go when you show() it? Unfortunately, the default location of a displayed dialog is relative to the position it was placed in the Visual Composition Editor. What does that mean ? In a nutshell, if the dialog is 300 pixels to the right and 200 pixels down from the upper-left...
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Using Runtime.getRuntime().exec() to launch an application is pretty straight forward, except when you’re trying to start an application whose name contains one or more spaces. Under Windows, you need to quote the application name: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("\"My Appliaction.exe\""); or use a String array: Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String{"My Application.exe"}); Under Mac OS X, you need to call open: Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new...
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