How to drag an applet using Alt + Leftclick to an new window and not the default JFrame

[Jacques Gertenbach]

Please help. I developed a PDF and Tiff image viewer as an applet.
Its working fine, but I have the following problem.

Applests cant resize, so now I'm trying to drag the applet of the page by using the new Alt + Leftclick,
The new draggable functionality from Java 1.6.10.
It works fine, but I want it to become a windowed frame so that it can be resized.

Any body please!!!

[Maneesh Godbole]

Hi Jacques,
Welcome to the Ranch.

Can you please elaborate on what you mean by windowed frame?

[Jacques Gertenbach]

With the new Java 1.6.10 release you are nou able to drag and drop you applets out of a web page to be stand alone applications on the desktop, using Alt + Left click.
It works fine, but once you have done so, you cannot resize the applet. This is due to the fact that the applets parent containter is a Frame without any features. It only gives you a little black x at the top right to close the applet which anchers it back to your page.
I have mangange to detach the applet by using the following code, but I would like to keep the Alt + Left click functionality and force the applet into a visable framed window that can be resized.
Meaning, I would like to be able to minipulate the parent container that is created by the Draggable functionality now available in 1.6.10.

Thanks


public void putInFrame()
{
AttachDetachButton.setText("Attach");
bStandalone = true;
dimOrigSize = new Dimension(getSize());
myParent = getParent();
myFrame = new DetachedJFrame(this,"Image Viewer");
Dimension siz = new Dimension(dimOrigSize);
myFrame.setSize(siz);
myFrame.add("Center",this);
myFrame.setVisible(true);
}

public void removeFromFrame()
{
AttachDetachButton.setText("Detach");
bStandalone = false;
myFrame.remove(imageViewer);
myFrame.dispose();
myFrame = null;
myParent.add("Center",imageViewer);
resize(dimOrigSize);
myParent.setVisible(true);
}



class DetachedJFrame extends JFrame
{
private ImageViewer iv;

public DetachedJFrame(ImageViewer imageViewer,String strName)
{
super(strName);
iv = imageViewer;
}

@Override
public void processEvent(AWTEvent evt)
{
if (evt.getID() == WindowEvent.WINDOW_CLOSING) {
iv.removeFromFrame();
return;
}
processWindowEvent((WindowEvent)evt);
}

}

[Maneesh Godbole]

Shouldn't you be defining the J/Frame in the appletDragStarted()?

[Jacques Gertenbach]

I tied that, but it creats an artifact the size of the original applet somewhere on the screen. So something not releasing properly.

[Maneesh Godbole]

Somewhere on the screen would be where the user dropped it!
Have you set your JFrame to be resizable? If yes, can you post your appletDragStarted() code?

[Jacques Gertenbach]

I unfortunalty do not have the code any more. After implementing the new code I did a cleanup.
Yes the JFrame in the dragstart event was sizeable.

The frame that java is creating in the draggable functionality is killing or interfeering with JFrame I am implementing.

I will see if I can recreate the code for you. Dont have too much time on my hands at the moment