ch.elca.el4j.gui.swing
Class AbstractMDIApplication

java.lang.Object
  org.jdesktop.application.AbstractBean
      org.jdesktop.application.Application
          org.jdesktop.application.SingleFrameApplication
              ch.elca.el4j.gui.swing.GUIApplication
                  ch.elca.el4j.gui.swing.AbstractMDIApplication

Direct Known Subclasses:

MDIApplication

public abstract class AbstractMDIApplication
extends GUIApplication

Parent class for new MDI applications using an XML GUI description. Programmatically written GUI should use MDIApplication. Additional features: * allows adding internal frames (for the Documents of MDI) to the application Internal frames can (optionally) minimize themselves { @link JInternalFrame#setIconifiable(boolean) }

Author:

Stefan Wismer (SWI), Philipp Oser (POS)

Nested Class Summary

protected class

AbstractMDIApplication.ListenerToEvent Helper that listens to events of the internal frames.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.jdesktop.application.Application

org.jdesktop.application.Application.ExitListener

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ch.elca.el4j.gui.swing.GUIApplication

m_config, m_instancesWithActionMappings, m_springContext

Constructor Summary

AbstractMDIApplication()

Method Summary

protected abstract JDesktopPane	getDesktopPane()
void	show(JComponent component) Show a nested component.
void	show(JInternalFrame frame, int index) Adds an internal frame to the MDI application In particular: keeps track of the frame, adds listeners to frame events and ensures properties of the frame are stored persistently.
void	showInternalFrame(JComponent frame) Adds an internal frame to the MDI application.

Methods inherited from class ch.elca.el4j.gui.swing.GUIApplication

addActionMappingInstance, createMenu, createPopup, getAction, getAction, getConfig, getInstance, getSpringContext, getString, launch, removeActionMappingInstance, setConfig, setSpringContext, show, showMain, showMain, showMain

Methods inherited from class org.jdesktop.application.SingleFrameApplication

configureWindow, getMainFrame, getMainView, setMainFrame, show, show, show, shutdown

Methods inherited from class org.jdesktop.application.Application

addExitListener, create, end, exit, exit, getContext, getExitListeners, getInstance, hide, initialize, launch, quit, ready, removeExitListener, setInstance, startup, waitForReady

Methods inherited from class org.jdesktop.application.AbstractBean

addPropertyChangeListener, addPropertyChangeListener, firePropertyChange, firePropertyChange, getPropertyChangeListeners, removePropertyChangeListener, removePropertyChangeListener

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractMDIApplication

public AbstractMDIApplication()

Method Detail

getDesktopPane

protected abstract JDesktopPane getDesktopPane()

Returns:

the desktop pane of this MDIApplication

showInternalFrame

public void showInternalFrame(JComponent frame)

Adds an internal frame to the MDI application.

Parameters:

frame - the frame to add

See Also:

show(JInternalFrame,int)

show

public void show(JComponent component)

Description copied from class: GUIApplication

Show a nested component.

Overrides:

show in class GUIApplication

Parameters:

component - the panel to show as MDI child window

show

public void show(JInternalFrame frame,
                 int index)

Adds an internal frame to the MDI application In particular: keeps track of the frame, adds listeners to frame events and ensures properties of the frame are stored persistently.

Parameters:

frame - the internal frame to add

index - the position at which to insert the component, or -1 to append the component to the end