I want to make a JFrame with the drawn shadow.
I made a undecorated window and made a background with shadow(grey) and empty part(green),and it can be dragged.
The problem is,when I try to drag the shadow or the empty part,the frame can also be dragged!
I want to bring the window under the window(Another application) that was under it,just like I click on the window.
I tried setBack(),but it just put it under every window,not the back one.
How to click through the window?
I am unable to understand your question clearly.
In case want a frame within a frame, then opt for JInternalFrame class.
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I created a JFrame and in the top right corner I have 3 buttons (minimize, maximize, close). How do I get the size of these buttons? I want to place a new button just to the left of the minimize button in the title bar but I need to know how much space these existing buttons take up so that I don't place my button on top of them. ie If you open a recent version of the Chrome browser you'll see a button beside the minimize button in the browser window. I want to do the same sort of thing in my Java application.
What your describing is very advanced.
An alternative route would be to use:
setUndecorated(true);
Then create your own window decorations. This way everything matches and you can add all of the button that you want.
I need to make a custom ui which looks like the following image :-
I know how to change the button to that arrow shape and everything else.But I can't understand how to move those close ,restore and minimize buttons to the center and give them round shape (on Windows).
On Googling ,I found how to make custom shape windows but it doesn't meet my requirements.
Can anyone please tell me how to do this or any link.??
You will need to create your own title bar as another panel with buttons and then remove the window decoration on the frame.
JFrame frame = new JFrame(...);
frame.setUndecorated(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);//This will close the frame and exit
To minimize and maximize, listen for button events and use:
frame.setState(Frame.ICONIFIED);//minimizes
frame.setState(Frame.NORMAL);//restores
See Frame.setState(int) for details.
I have an open-source java swing application like this:
http://i47.tinypic.com/dff4f7.jpg
You can see in the screenshot, there is a JPanel divided into two area, left and right area. The left area has many text links. When I click the SLA Criteria link, it will pop-up the SLA Criteria window. The pop-up window is JFrame object.
Now, I'm trying to put the pop-up window into right area of the JPanel, so that means no pop-up window anymore, i.e. when I click the SLA Criteria link, its contents will be displayed at the right area of the JPanel. The existing content of the right area of JPanel will not be used anymore. The concept is just same like in the java api documentation page: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api. You click the link in the left frame, you'll get the content displayed at the right frame.
The example illustration is like this:
(note: it's made and edited using image editor, this is not a real screenshot of working application)
http://i48.tinypic.com/5vrxaa.jpg
So, I would like to know is there a way to put JFrame into JPanel?
I'm thinking of using JInternalFrame, is it possible? Or is there another way?
UPDATE:
Source code:
http://pastebin.com/tiqRbWP8 (VTreePanel.java, this is the panel with left & right area divisions)
http://pastebin.com/330z3yuT (CPanel.java, this is the superclass of VTreePanel and also subclass from JPanel)
http://pastebin.com/MkNsbtjh (AWindow.java, this is the pop-up window)
http://pastebin.com/2rsppQeE (CFrame.java, this is the superclass of AWindow and also subclass from JFrame)
Instead of trying to embed the frame, you want to embed the frame's content.
There is (at least) one issue I can see with this.
The menu bar is controlled by the frame's RootPane.
Create you're self a new JPanel. Set it's layout to BorderLayout.
Get the menu bar from the frame (using JFrame#getJMenuBar) and added to the north position of you new panel.
Get the frames ContentPane and add it to the center position of the panel.
There is undoubtedly countless other, application specific issues you will run into trying to do this...
No, you don't want to "put a JFrame into a JPanel" and your illustration above doesn't demonstrate this either. Instead it's showing a subordinate window on top of (not inside of) another window. If you absolutely need to display a new subordinate window, I'd recommend that you create and display a JDialog. The tutorials will explain how to do this, or if you get stuck post your code attempt and we'll help you work with this.
Edit 1
You state:
I need to convert from the pop-up window style into the jpanel content style. It's just like the java api documentation page style: docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api When you click the text in left frame, it doesn't show any pop-up, right? The content is displayed at right frame directly. So that's basicly my goal. The source code is quite big. I will try to paste the source code if possible.
What you are looking for is to simply implement a MouseListener in a JList or JTable, and when responding to the click get the content based on the selection made. This has nothing to do with placing a JFrame in a JPanel and all to do with writing the correct program logic. Again, display it in a modal JDialog -- but that's all secondary to your writing the correct non-GUI logic. You're really barking up the wrong tree here. Forget about JFrames, forget about JPanels for the moment and instead concentrate on how you're going to extract the SLA Criteria data when it is clicked on.
Edit 2
I think I see what you're trying to do -- instead of JFrames and JDialogs, use JPanels and swap them using a CardLayout which would allow you to swap views.
I had skimming the source codes, I saw that the AWindow.java has internal panel (APanel.java) to hold the window's content, and it also has a public method to return the content panel object (getAPanel()). With this, I can use it for fetching the window's contents into other container.
Finally, I decided to use JTabbedPane in the right area of VTreePanel for displaying the pop-up window's contents.
You cannot put a Jframe into a JPanel. Instead you should try to create a separate panel that has functionalities like your JFrame and embed that into your JPanel.
Since you can put a JPanel into another JPanel but not a JFrame into another JPanel
I have a transparent undecorated JFrame that I set using AWTUtilities.setWindowOpaque(this, false). On the JFrame, I have a scrollpane; it works perfectly on Windows. On the Mac, the whole JFrame is draggable; so when I try to scroll through the scrollpane by clicking and holding the mouse on the scrollbar, the entire frame moves instead of the scrollbar thumb. I also tried to use setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,0)) instead of setWindowOpaque(), but it has the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?
As suggested in this similar thread, try:
getRootPane().putClientProperty("apple.awt.draggableWindowBackground", Boolean.FALSE);
If you choose to use this, the scrollbar will be usable and the window won't drag. However, you may be stuck with an immovable window, unless you add a MouseMotionListener and move the window around in the mouseDragged() method using a call like frame.setLocation().
Instead, you might be able to force the user to click on the scrollbar's arrow buttons, rather than drag the scrollbar itself... But that's not the most user-friendly idea I've ever seen.
I am implementing ToolTip in Java as to make users having an easier time to use the product. Though tooltip that are at the borders of the JFrame and ends up outside the JFrame starts to "flicker". I've tried lots of things (like moving the tooltip so it should be inside the Jframe, controlling the painting so it ends up within the JFrame and so on) though it doesn't work.
Anyone got any expertise within the field that know how to avoid this problem?
Cheers,
Skarion
When a tooltip is displayed in a JFrame, Swing does not create a floating window, it simply paints the tooltip in the graphic context of the JFrame. This does not generate any flickering.
On the other hand, when a tooltip is outside the boundaries of the JFrame, it becomes heavyweight: a window is created to host the tooltip component. Flickering occurs when the tooltip window appears.
Maybe setting "-Dsun.awt.noerasebackground=true" would help because it prevents one step of background repainting of the hosting window.