Re: Palette inside a TopComponent

A Tc is only a swing container. So place a borderlayout in it. The scene
panel as center and the palette as East. I guess it is such simple

Den 10 nov. 2016 4:23 fm skrev "sonideft" <[email protected]>:

> Just looking for ideas on an approach that may work.
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> I have a TopComponent that I use as an Editor. I currently has a
> BeanTreeView, a GraphScene and other editing UI. I currently also have a
> palette that opens in its own TopComponent and positioned where I want it.
> The purpose of the palette is to provide three icons/nodes that I can drop
> onto the GraphScene. This all works fine.
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> The opportunity is that the palette takes up a lot of space, only has
> three small items and users using the RCP app on  laptops would appreciate
> it if the palette could be moved inside the TopComponent with the
> GraphScene. Perhaps in a much smaller jPanel somewhere.
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> I have gone through the Palette source code and it seems it always wants
> to open in a TopComponent. I found a PalettePanel class which looked
> promising until I had difficulty figuring out which library to include for
> org.netbeans.modules.palette.ui.PalettePanel. The search for dependency
> libraries is not finding anything. I am still on NetBeans 8.02.
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> Any ideas on how or if this may be possible would be appreciated.
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> Steve
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