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Better Swing Application Framework was started in September 2009, is owned by etf, and has 93 members.

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Using a docking framework as a top level component in View

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Replies: 7 - Last Post: March 12, 2011 17:46
by: opticyclic

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etf

Posted: July 20, 2010 05:39 by etf

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Integration with one of the docking frameworks is one of the possible improvements for the next version. I have some experience with such frameworks, but I want to discuss which one is the most popular and actively developed at the moment. I know about adoption of the docking framework from the Netbeans platform is several applications (like SQuirreL SQL Client, etc), but I would rather don't use it. Any suggestions? Opinions?
I have a strong filling that BSAF must provide such option to be a modern desktop application framework.

jekkos

Posted: August 04, 2010 11:35 by jekkos

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Hello there,

I use a self modified version of a simple extended version of JDesktopPane, found on http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2001/jw-1130-jscroll.html

I modified this code to integrate with bsaf and created some basic components that, when added, will show their actions in the menubar and so on.

still, Im having some troubles in restoring the session state for my internalFrames, as it doesn't seem to be supported in bsaf by default.

grtz

jekkos

Posted: August 05, 2010 08:43 by jekkos

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OK I did some further debugging and found out that the created component path in bsaf for my internalframes sometimes seemed to change. The custom JDesktopPane uses some viewports to enable scrolling for out of bounds internal frames. The bug was solved by setting a fixed name on this viewport. I think I've seen some issue rising related to changing component paths before, here, too, so I had some suspicion about it Smile

radimch	Posted: July 20, 2010 10:14 by radimch » Permalink
	Hi, I'm a satisfied user of BSAF together with 'DockingFrames' project http://dock.javaforge.com/ It is LGPL, it has a great documentation, it is maintained, ad it quite quick to learn it and applications looks great. Release contains 2 jar libs. Core (I'm using only this) and Common for more abstracted attempt. Radimch

etf	Posted: July 20, 2010 19:46 by etf » Permalink
	Thanks a lot! I have checked it out. The framework looks quite impressive. What is even more important, the project is actively developed. Are there any other options?

CasaDelGato	Posted: August 22, 2010 18:00 by CasaDelGato » Permalink
	DockingFrames does look nice. How hard was it to integrate with BSAF?

radimch	Posted: November 01, 2010 06:42 by radimch » Permalink
	I'm using it with no extra effort to integration, just simply using features of both frameworks in one project, and it simply works. But some integration is definitely a challenging task.

opticyclic	Posted: March 12, 2011 17:46 by opticyclic » Permalink
	MyDoggy is a good Docking framework. http://mydoggy.sourceforge.net/ See here for a webstart demo http://mydoggy.sourceforge.net/jnlp/mydoggyset.jnlp

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