How to draw on the title bar of JFrame ?

Is there any way in which I can draw on the title bar of the JFrame. I want to display animation on the JFrame title bar. Is it possible in Swing! For example I want to display a set of concentric circles increasing and decreasing in radii.

What child window are you referring to? Do you mean a browser window opened with web.show_document?
If so, you can use javascript to hide browser toolbars and so on. Search the forum for some javascript examples where windows are opened with toolbar=no.

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I'm looking for a way for the title bar display of my web page to be different than the text in the actual nav bar created by iWeb. For instance, I'd like the nav bar to just say Home for my main page, but in the title bar in the browser say "blah blah blah."
I know there has to be a way to do this. iWeb has actually done it on one page already, but I can't figure out how. I think it picked up the title bar text from the first text box in the page. For instance, the page name in the navigation bar is "blahs for today" but the browser title bar when you open that page says "blah blah," which happens to be the first line of text on the page. The page title in iWeb.app, though, is "blahs for today." But if I look at the source code it lists title as "blah blah."
I'm guessing I might be able to work around by making an invisible text box with the text that I want in the title bar as the very first thing on the page, and hope iWeb makes that the title bar text. I'd rather have a more correct way of doing it.
Is there a way of doing this in the source code without having to change a lot of stuff?
Thanks for any help.

Richard Kirkman1 wrote:
I think it picked up the title bar text from the first text box in the page. (...) I'm guessing I might be able to work around by making an invisible text box with the text that I want in the title bar...
Richard ~ The key is the default Title box that iWeb creates for every new page — it's that which you need to edit, not another text box you've created. And to make the text in that Title box invisible, see here.

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On several PDA screens, I need all the real esate I can get. The title bar chews up a lot of it. Is there any way, in the vi settings or programmatically, that I can remove the title bar?
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Hello,
It sounds like you are referring to the GUI actually on your Palm devices. I believe on Palm devices all applications have a title bar, and there isn't a way to get rid of it. My guess is that perhaps this is a feature you can enable/disable as a Palm OS setting, or may simply be the way the Palm has defined its user interface. If you have your Palm devices handy, check out the display settings to see any has an option to remove the title bars in general. If you find out either way, definitely repost so the community can find the answer here as well!
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Best Regards,
JLS
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plz give me a small code to change the image of the JFrame in the Title bar.
i know how to change the name of the title bar .
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Rathna1()
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therathna

hi,
JFrame frame;
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setIconImage(new ImageIcon("icons/img007.gif").getImage());
frame.setSize(800,600);
i think the thing u r searching is :
frame.setIconImage(new ImageIcon("icons/img007.gif").getImage());
~~~radha

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Hi experts,
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Att.,
Luiz.

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Refer the wiki for more details.
GUI Status of A Program using Menu Painter - ABAP Development - SCN Wiki
Regards
Anoop

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