🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

I've been following this newsgroup for a while and I have realised that
there's a lots
of postings (including a couple ones from me) about repainting windows or
applets. 

The reasons for these problems have varied from swing bugs to programmer
errors due to the lack of Java knowledge. The latter is quite common
because programmers tend to be too busy (= lazy ;-) to read manuals, good
books about the topic might be hard to find, good books might be too
expensive and it's even harder to find good documents on the web.

Now, I'd like to raise some discussion about the following:
-Does anyone know good FAQ's/links/books/articles/newsgroups about the
swing-behaviour (and GUI-behaviour in Java in general)?
-Tips/links/books/etc. when you should repaint(), validate() etc. methods,
maybe a brief introduction to the swing event model would be nice
-What you can do and what you can't with the GUI?(MDI-windows? ,creating
modal-dialogs from a non-graphical class (needs a parent frame)? Applets
which create a frame and run in it?) = what you should never try and what
you should always do.
-Everything else you think is related to this.

All comments are welcome!

Cheers,
		Jari