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POCreating an Outlook style user interface in Java?
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copied!<p>I'm looking to create an Outlook style UI in a Java desktop app, with a list of contexts or nodes in a lefthand pane, and the selected context in a pane on the right. How do I go about this? </p> <p>I'm looking for a bit more detail than 'use a JFrame'. A tutorial or walk through would be good, or some skeleton code, or a framework/library that provides this kind of thing out of the box. </p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong></p> <p>My (edited) code so far:</p> <p><strong>UIPanel</strong></p> <pre><code>public class UIPanel extends javax.swing.JPanel { private final JSplitPane splitPane; public UIPanel() { super(new BorderLayout()); initComponents(); JPanel contextPnl = new ContextPanel(); JPanel treePnl = new NodePanel(contextPnl); this.splitPane = new JSplitPane(JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT, true, new JScrollPane(treePnl), new JScrollPane(contextPnl)); add(splitPane, BorderLayout.CENTER); //not sure I need these? splitPane.setVisible(true); treePnl.setVisible(true); contextPnl.setVisible(true); } </code></pre> <p><strong>NodePanel</strong></p> <pre><code>public class NodePanel extends javax.swing.JPanel { JPanel _contextPanel; public NodePanel(JPanel contextPanel) { initComponents(); _contextPanel = contextPanel; initialise(); } private void initialise(){ nodeTree.addTreeSelectionListener(getTreeListener()); } private TreeSelectionListener getTreeListener(){ return new TreeSelectionListener() { public void valueChanged(TreeSelectionEvent e) { DefaultMutableTreeNode node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) nodeTree.getLastSelectedPathComponent(); // if nothing is selected if (node == null) return; // get selected node Object nodeInfo = node.getUserObject(); CardLayout layout = (CardLayout) _contextPanel.getLayout(); //layout.show(_contextPanel, "test"); //show context for selected node } }; } </code></pre> <p><strong>ContextPanel</strong></p> <pre><code>public class ContextPanel extends javax.swing.JPanel { JPanel _cards; final static String CONTEXT1 = "Context 1"; final static String CONTEXT2 = "Context 2"; JPanel _context1; JPanel _context2; public ContextPanel() { initComponents(); intialiseContexts(); } public void updateContext(String contextName){ //TODO } private void intialiseContexts(){ _context1 = new NodeContext(); _context2 = new NodeContext(); _cards = new JPanel(new CardLayout()); _cards.add(_context1, CONTEXT1); _cards.add(_context2, CONTEXT2); } </code></pre>

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