Multiple JFrame or JDialog

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I'm developing an application with Swing and there is a situation that I couldn't decide to what to do. I need multiple pages but;

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 03 '15 at 05:57

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I would use JDesktopPane with JInternalFrames. With that technique you can create as many windows as you need. A good place to start with this is here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/internalframe.html.

answered Jun 03 '15 at 05:57

chris

I was exactly checking, JDesktopPane with JInternalFrame. thank you for your attention. – Vivian Maya Jun 03 '15 at 06:10
FYI: The MDI paradigm has been deprecated for more years then I care to remember – MadProgrammer Jun 03 '15 at 06:28
@MadProgrammer: Ok, what is the recommended approach if multiple documents are needed? I used the java mdi a few month ago and was pleased about it. – chris Jun 03 '15 at 06:40
@chris `CardLayout`, `JTabbedPane`, pretty much anything else :P – MadProgrammer Jun 03 '15 at 06:42
@MadProgrammer: i just loved (i promise to never use it again:) the way the user can create, arrange, resize, close the windows at runtime as needed. – chris Jun 03 '15 at 06:56
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@chris I spent the last 6 years trying to disassemble a MDI based application because (amongst other things), it's a monolithical pile of ... joy and happiness, but it was always the wrong choice for what the organisation was trying to do, just wish I had been there when they were making the decisions. It's impossible to have any sort of application context for a single document and if one crashes, they all crash, then theirs the issues of memory within a shared context, blah, blah, blah :P – MadProgrammer Jun 03 '15 at 07:06
@MadProgrammer: ok, got it. Thx for the infos, was helpful for me and will be probably for others. – chris Jun 03 '15 at 07:09

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '15 at 07:51

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You can also use multiple JTabbedPane in a JFrame which will make your work eassier.

see the link below:

answered Jun 03 '15 at 07:51

Programmer

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