jdesktoppanes and stuff

can someone help me with something....

how do you create a frame which has a content pane which incorporates JDesktopPane as well as
a 'navigation pane' which controls the selection of the internal frames in the JDesktopPane? if this is even
possible, how do i also separate the jdesktoppane and the navigation pane with a JSplitPane?
please help. i only want to know how to set the different content panes for this one frame.
as a reference to what i'm talking about....anyone who has ever seen the IDE interface? i want something like that

Vic,
Sounds to me like a good place for you to start is in the Java Swing Tutorial. It will answer every single question you have asked here and has lots of sample code.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html
Have fun

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Happy Coding,
Gregg Bolinger