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Technical Q&As: Java
User experience encompasses the visual appearance, interactive behavior, and assistive capabilities of software. By adhering to specific guidelines and practices, Java applications can seamlessly match other Mac OS X applications in look and feel.

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Right- and Control-Drags on Mac OS X (HTML)
QA1362: Describes a difference in Drag and Drop on Mac OS X that affects all cross-platform Java applications
2004-08-31
Unsolicited About Boxes (HTML)
QA1363: How to properly override the default about and quit behaviors in Java 1.4 and later
2004-08-31
Setting the default look-and-feel for Swing applications (HTML) ()
QA1059: Changing the default look-and-feel for Swing applications on Mac OS X.
2004-02-10
Exception in JFileChooser.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed (HTML)
Deprecated - QA1280: Workaround for a known issue in Java 1.4.1 Update 1 on Jaguar.
2003-10-07
Customizing Component Border Colors (HTML) ()
QA1272: Retaining Aqua background for JComboBox menus with custom control borders.
2003-07-31
Prompting the user with MRJQuitHandler (HTML) ()
QA1187: How to intercept Cmd-Q for all Java 1.3 releases on Mac OS X.
2002-08-15
Submenus not Updating With Mac OS Screen MenuBar (HTML) ()
QA1171: Workaround for a menu update problem with the screen menubar in Java 1.3.1
2002-07-12
Illustrating document window changes in Swing (HTML) ()
QA1146: Using the Aqua close button dot in Swing applications to indicate document changes.
2002-06-18
Rendering Multi-line text in JTree nodes (HTML)
QA1091: Correcting render problems with multi-line JTree node labels in the Aqua look and feel.
2001-11-02
Using the MRJ with IE 5 (HTML)
Deprecated - JAVA26: Describes using MRJ with IE 5 and JDK 1.1.x on Mac OS Classic.
2000-08-14