History of Docking Frames

History of Docking Frames

13.11.2006

14.11.2006

+ ActionPopupSuppressor: suppresses the popup menu which normally appears when pressing the right mouse button over a title or a panel.

19.11.2006

+ DockFrontend: provides some additional features to save and load layouts, and to hide and show panels
+ DockSituationIgnore: allows to ignore Dockables when saving or loading a situation (a layout)
+ A set of demos
* bugfix: DockTitles of children of a dockable station were not updated when the parent was moved

11.12.2006
This update gives support for Java 6 (Java 5 is still supported) and for environments with a SecurityManager.

+ DockTitle: Method "getOrientation", returns the value of the last call to "setOrientation"
+ DockTitle: Method "getOrigin". Normally a DockTitle is created either by a DockTitleVersion, or with the help of a DockTitleVersion. The title must now store this version.
+ DockTitleController: tries to avoid using images of titles when dragging a title. The controller preffers now to create a copy of the title (using the DockTitleVersion from "DockTitle#getOrigin" and "Dockable#getDockTitle"). This new title is added to a Window.
This new behaviour gives several advantages:
- * Components are used the way they were designed
- * The old way was not supported by Java 1.6, the new is supported
- * Animations on titles will now be visible even while the title is dragged
* bugfix: DockController: if a window showing a dragged DockTitle can't be made "always on top" because of a SecurityException, then the exception will just be ignored.
+ Secure-Package: contains classes that allow the DockingFrames to work in environments, where a SecurityManager shuts down some features (for example in an Applet)
+ AbstractDockTitle: when clicking on the icon, a popupmenu will appear
+ ActionPopup: can now handle changes to its model (new icons, text, even new submenus...)
* bugfix: ScreenDockStation: The size is handeld more carefully when dragging a Dockable to a ScreenDockStation

30.12.2006

* AbstractDockTitle: Janni Kovacs found and corrected a bug that prevented a correct update of the "MiniButtons" when a DockAction was added to a DockActionSource.
+ ActionOffer: recieves now a set of DockActionSources and no longer the objects which can create sources. That should make the code more readable.
+ LocationHint: new class
+ DockActionSource: has now an additional method "getLocationHint". The LocationHint tells an ActionOffer where to put a source.
+ DefaultActionOffer: now respects the hints of the LocationHint of the DockActionSources. There was no need to keep the enumeration "Elements", it was removed.
+ DefaultDockActionSource, MultiDockActionSource: have methods to get and set a LocationHint
- The "ReplaceAction" is no longer added automatically if the "singleParentRemove"-property of DockController is false. However it can be added through the new "ReplaceActionGuard".

04.01.2007

* Bugfix on FocusController: when a JComboBox recieves the focus in an unfocused Dockable, and opens its menu, then the focus will no longer be transfered to another Component by the DockController. In fact, no Component which was source of an event should now loose its focus if the DockController has to change the "focusedDockable".
* Changed the license to GPL

14.01.07

- Removed global focus listener. The focus is still a problem, but not as bad as befor.
* Found a bug in DockFrontend, the "Hider"-action was instanciated twice.

20.01.07

+ New method "setShowHideAction" in "DockFrontend": can add or remove all hide-actions globally.
+ "setDragOnlyTitle" in "DockController": Sets whether dockables can only be dragged and dropped if the mouse is pressed on the title, or they can be dragged when the mouse is pressed over any Component
* The default-DockTitleFactory from the DockTheme is now used more often (instead of DefaultDockTitleFactory).

07.02.07

* New packages in "bibliothek.gui.dock.action", some classes were moved into these new packages
+ New concept for converting DockActions into views (menuitems, components, ...), all these conversions are now handled by the ActionViewConverter
- DockAction has less methods
+ DockAction has a new method "createView"
+ A set of new Interfaces and classes which inherit or implement DockAction
* ActionType is no longer an enumeration, it is now a class. Clients may introduce new ActionTypes, but have to inform the ActionViewConverter about the new types
* ActionPopup and AbstractDockTitle are using the ActionViewConverter to create menuitems or buttons
+ Flat-Theme provides ViewGenerators to create flat buttons. Flat-titles no longer need to handle their mini-buttons themself
+ DockController has a new property "actionViewConverter"
- DockActionSources no longer have anything to do with separators
+ New DockAction "SeparatorAction" which represents a separator
+ DockTitle now supports separators too

10.02.07

+ New DockAction "DropDownAction" and "SimpleDropDownAction". New observer "DropDownActionListener"
+ New ActionType "DROP_DOWN", new interfaces and classes to support the "DROP_DOWN"
+ new ViewTarget "DROP_DOWN", new interfaces and classes to support the new target
* TitleMiniButton renamed as MiniButton
* MiniButton now carefully looks at its borders to calculate its preferred size
* AbstractDockTitle now supports Action-Buttons with different preferred sizes.
+ new class "DropDownMiniButton" inherits from MiniButton

13.02.07

+ New class DropDownFilter: allows a DropDownAction to decide, which of their properties (icons, tooltip, ...) should be visible on a drop-down-button, and which properties should be read from the selected action.
+ Support classes and methods for the new DropDownFilter
* License changed to LGPL

15.02.07

+ New class "SplitDockTree" which represents the tree of a SplitDockStation. Can be used to set the children of a SplitDockStation in an easy way.
+ New class "SplitDockGrid" which can be used to automatically create a SplitDockTree. The grid behaves like a panel with no LayoutManager, a fancy algorithm will then read the location of each child, and put the children in the tree.

21.02.07

+ New class "DockProperties" and supporting classes. The properties are used to store not-so-important values, that are read from all over the framework.
- The combination of two Dockables no longer automatically gets the icon and the title of the parent-station. The icon and the title can now be set globally through the properties. Every Dockable with no title or icon, will read the properties.

26.02.07

* Bugfix in DockController: recursive call of "setFocusedDockable" is no longer possible, should erase all problems with listeners calling themselfs in a recursion.

17.04.07