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I'm very new to Java, so I apologise if my questions seem a bit stupid.

I'm attempting to create a tabbed dialogue. I've got an applet which creates
a separate JFrame, which contains a JTabbedPane, which has three JPanes to
form the tabs. Each of those JPanes has a JButton on it to give it something
to show.

When I run the app, the tabbed frame appears quite correctly, but clicking
on the other tabs has no effect - the page doesn't change. Also, if I click
the button on the visible page, it doesn't depress. Did I miss something? I
added a listener to the JTabbedPane and a handler for itemStateChanged, but
it never gets called. I added handlers for each page for mouseClicked in the
hope that they would fire when the tabs were clicked, but they don't. Should
the changeover of pages happen automatically as part of the JTabbedPane
class, or am I supposed to do it manually? If so, how?

Why is the 'help' on Java classes so pitiful? All they do is repeat the name
of the method, they don't explain why you would do it, or give examples, or
anything.

Also, when I use the deployment wizard to put all the files in a directory,
and then I run the HTML file, I'm told that it can't find the metal look and
feel thingy. Is this something missing from my VM, or is it something buried
in the JBuilder installation that I need to copy somewhere? How come it
works in the debug environment? I'm not bothered which look and feel it has
at the moment, but I would have expected it to at least work with the one it
chose!

Finally, my environment (JBuilder2) seems to have decided to breakpoint in a
fake file derived from the JFrame class (see below), and I can't stop it
from doing that now - I want it to just run to the first breakpoint _I_ set.

This is what the text it breaks at looks like (it breaks on the first line,
the comment!):

// JBuilder API Decompiler STUB SOURCE generated from class file
// Wed Nov 03 18:18:36 GMT 1999
// -- implementation of methods is not available



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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