You're welcome... I'm glad I could be of help! To be honest, I'm not quite sure... I hadn't thought of that. If you implement a large slew of options, then it probably would be better to have them in a different tab/popup/whatever. If there are only a few of them, I don't see a problem with them being added to the main window.
That does remind me, though... is there any way to get your program to "remember" the contents of all the text fields and all option settings upon exit and then reproduce them the next time the program is launched? I personally don't see how this would be possible without an additional file (writing these values to a text file upon exit and then reading them in upon the next launching), but you obviously know more than me, so perhaps this is possible via the Java cache or something.
Know more? I laughed out loud at that. I wrote both of those with two textbooks at my desk and less than a semester of high school computer class under my belt. Most of what is in there is just me taking the time to write out 500 lines of GUI code...
As to remembering values, as far as I know, it would have to be a text file. I could just stick it in the C drive for windows, and whatever the main storage spot is for macs and call it good. I'm going to overhaul the programs during spring break, but if it doesn't get done it may be until summer :(.