Replace component of a Dock

Byte-Welt - Projekte / Projects DockingFrames
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Hello Beni,

Is the following the correct DF way to swap a component of a dock?
Standard create dock method of:

private DefaultMultipleCDockable createDock(String id, String title)
{
   DefaultMultipleCDockable dock = new DefaultMultipleCDockable( null );
   dock.add( new JScrollPane( new JTextArea() ) );
   return dock;
}

And I call it with:

MultipleCDockable dock = createDock("thing01", "Something Cool");

Now, if I give the user the option to switch the JTextArea to another JTextArea.

I can delete the existing component and add a new component by doing:

private void swapComp(MultipleCDockable dock)
{
   Container content = ((DefaultCDockable)dock).getContentPane();
   content.remove(0);
   content.add(new JScrollPane( new JTextArea("This is the swapped component.") ));
   ((DefaultMultipleCDockable)dock).setTitleText("Swapped");
}

And call swapComp() method as follows:

swapComp(dock);

The code seems to work. Is this the right way to handle it?

Regards,
Roger

2

That is fine, everything below the “content pane” belongs to your application and the framework will never add/replace/remove anything that is on the content pane.