sliding windows

[amol bakre]

Hi!
I wanted to know if someone knew how to create window or prompts that dont just pop up on the screen but scroll or sort of slide into view.Somewhat like if in msn messenger if u have got a new mail then a prompt neatly smoothly slides into view from the right bottom corner.can it be done in swings?? how
amol

[Nathan Pruett]

Here's an example of how to do this...

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
 
public class SlidingWindow extends JFrame
{
    private int xSize, ySize, xLoc, yLoc;
 
    public SlidingWindow()
    {
        super( "The Amazing Sliding Window" );
        Dimension screenSize =
                Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        xSize = 300;
        ySize = 300;
        xLoc = screenSize.width + 10;
        yLoc = ( screenSize.height / 2 ) - ( ySize / 2 );
        setBounds( xLoc, yLoc, xSize, ySize );
        setVisible( true );
        for( ; xLoc > ( screenSize.width / 2 ) - ( xSize / 2 ); xLoc-- )
        {
            setBounds( xLoc, yLoc, xSize, ySize );
        }
    }
 
    public static void main( String args[] )
    {
        SlidingWindow sw = new SlidingWindow();
        sw.addWindowListener( sw.new SlidingExit() );
    }
 
    public class SlidingExit extends WindowAdapter
    {
        public void windowClosing( WindowEvent event )
        {
            Dimension screenSize =
                Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
            for( ; xLoc < screenSize.width + 10; xLoc++ )
            {
                setBounds( xLoc, yLoc, xSize, ySize );
            }
            System.exit( 0 );
        }
    }
}

HTH,
-Nate