Nate,
I bet you have hundreds of these little programs like this from helping people out on javaranch.
Have you ever thought about putting together a type of SWING FAQ and for each Question, you have one of these little programs?
I know we could just search the SWING forum, but knowing a search is returning some code instead of filtering through all the garbage might be nice...
I think it would be neat and very useful. Maybe even write a book. Then you could get that Author status.