Swing Dockable Windows

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Rob McDonald - 29 Oct 2005 09:54 GMT

Does anyone know of a decent set of freely available classes for
managing dockable windows via Swing? Googling found a few mediocre
commercial offerings. What does Eclipse use?

Thanks in advance,

Rob

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Andrey Kuznetsov - 29 Oct 2005 10:51 GMT

> Does anyone know of a decent set of freely available classes for
> managing dockable windows via Swing? Googling found a few mediocre
> commercial offerings.

JGui 1.38 is open source http://jgui.imagero.com/download/jgui138.jar

some commercial docking libs have open source versions:

- JIDE (http://www.jidesoft.com/),
- InfoNode http://www.infonode.net/

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Karsten Lentzsch - 29 Oct 2005 11:40 GMT

> Does anyone know of a decent set of freely available classes for
> managing dockable windows via Swing? Googling found a few mediocre
> commercial offerings. What does Eclipse use?

FlexDock is a free and open windowing and docking solution.
Netbeans provides a free and open docking too, but it's
harder to find and to extract it from the many sources.
Two other commercial offerings are JDock and VLDocking.

FlexDock - https://flexdock.dev.java.net/
JDock - http://www.swingall.com/
VLDocking - http://www.vlsolutions.com/en/index.php

Here's a nice introduction to FlexDock:
http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/m91949679.html

- Karsten

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Roedy Green - 31 Oct 2005 10:11 GMT

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:40:31 +0200, Karsten Lentzsch
<karsten@jgoodies.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>FlexDock - https://flexdock.dev.java.net/
>JDock - http://www.swingall.com/
>VLDocking - http://www.vlsolutions.com/en/index.php

for future reference the six links various people came up with for
docking software are filed under docking in the Java glossary at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/docking.html

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Rob McDonald - 29 Oct 2005 18:11 GMT

Thanks for the links. I'm sure it is covered now.

Rob

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