JDesktopPane

[jbader]

Would really help developers break out of the list-and-form UI paradigm that is common with dev tools like Servoy...JInternalFrame is already present...any plans for this?

[ROCLASI]

You mean a form with (hidden) tabpanels doesn't do the trick ?

[jbader]

I mean an application desktop within a Servoy application; iconifiable windows/docking, movable elements within the desktop etc. Desktops can provide an entirely different UI experience then what most developers create currently.

With Servoy, or with other similar tools typically interfaces are broken up into lists of records or forms. Lists obviously show multiple records and forms only one. This is a consistent UI paradigm for application development: view a list, select a form...view a list select a form. There are other ways to build applications though.

Here is what I mean:

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-1 ... croll.html

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial ... frame.html

[sbutler]

Doesn't this do what you are asking for?

http://www.servoymagazine.com/home/2007 ... jinte.html

[ROCLASI]

You mean you want to create an MDI (Multiple Document Interface) window?

[jbader]

Hi Scott,

The JInternalFrame bean is cool (and the servoymagazine article was much help when you wrote it - thanks again), and is the "windowing" part of what I am talking about, but w/o the desktop to dock these things to, they just float around like non-modals and are not much different than a regular window.

With the desktop pane you can "anchor" these windows to a parent desktop element/pane.

Regarding the MDI thread...yeah, pretty much (and swing achieves this with JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame) but more IDE "style"