I have a panel, in which I have to place few components which should be movable at run time...Its similar to what IDEs like NetBeans do..when the component is placed on the panel, we will be able to drag and place wherever we like..I would like to acheive the same during runtime.
Can someone help me with this.
Thanks in advance
Pradeep
create a JPanel without a layout managerJPanel panel = new JPanel(null) {
public void doLayout() {
:
}
;
and do the layout yourself.
thomas
Hi,
I've created a customizer framework for such tasks: Move and resize components with the mouse and allow further customizations. "Snap-to-grid"-feature included! Maybe you find it useful. (It's open source!)
I started to write a tutorial (still under construction!):
http://softsmithy.sourceforge.net/lib/docs/tutorial/swing/customizer/index.html
For adding components see:
http://softsmithy.sourceforge.net/lib/docs/api/org/softsmithy/lib/swing/CustomizerBar.html
To customize properties use:
http://softsmithy.sourceforge.net/lib/docs/api/org/softsmithy/lib/swing/JCustomizerPropertyTable.html
Register it to the SelectionManager of the JCustomizerPane and set the CustomizableProperties-property of the JCustomizer objects.
Also have a look at the subclasses of JCustomizer.
E.g. there are
customizers for images & shapes:
http://softsmithy.sourceforge.net/lib/docs/api/org/softsmithy/lib/swing/JXIconCustomizer.html
a label customizer with inline editing:
http://softsmithy.sourceforge.net/lib/docs/api/org/softsmithy/lib/swing/JLabelCustomizer.html
a line customizer:
http://softsmithy.sourceforge.net/lib/docs/api/org/softsmithy/lib/swing/JLine2DCustomizer.html
And there are many classes providing support for menu- and toolbar-actions. (Incuding support for some of the "Java Look and Feel Graphics Repository" actions.)
Look at the *.swing and the *.swing.action packages.
Just ask me if you don't find them.
Homepage:
http://www.softsmithy.org
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64833
Source:
http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=64833
http://softsmithy.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/softsmithy/trunk/lib/src/org/softsmithy/lib/
API:
http://softsmithy.sourceforge.net/lib/docs/api/index.html
If you have questions just ask me!
-Puce