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lichuan.nj@gmail.com · Guest

Hello everyone, I would like to ask something.

I have few tabs, each contains a JTree in a JPanel to display a
(large) hierarchy. When I give the menu command to populate the trees
from an external file, I want only that tree in the currently visible
tab to be built. And when I switch to another tab later, it will does
the delayed instantiation.

The question is how can I get the visibility of a JTree contain in a
JPanel? isVisible, isShown on JTree seem not working. What is it the
semantics of isVisible, isShown for components in a tab? Yes I can
detect the visibility of the container JPanel insterd, but it breaks
in the boundary of several components in my program...

Thanks a lot in advance!

Chuan Li

visionset · Guest

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bcr666 · Guest

You say you have tabs. I assume you are using a JTabbedPane. I would
make the content in each of the tabs its own class that implements an
interface.

public interface TreeWidget {
public void loadTree(Object parameter);
}

public class TabPanelA implements TreeWidget {
JTree tvwTreeA = new JTree(new DefaultTreeModel(new
DefaultMutableTreeNode("Root")));
... // other stuff here
public void loadTree(Object parameter) {
... // stuff here to load tree
}
}

public class MyFrame extends JFrame {
JButton cmdLoad = new JButton("Load");
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();

public MyFrame() {
this.setSize(800, 600);
this.setVisible(true);
this.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.getContentPane().add(cmdLoad, BorderLayout.NORTH);
this.getContentPane().add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
tabbedPane.addTab("Panel A", new TabPanelA());
cmdLoad.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
Object parameter = ...// parameter to pass to the tree

((TreeWidget)tabbedPane.getSelectedComponent()).loadTree(parameter);
}
});
}

lichuan.nj@gmail.com · Guest

Thanks for your nice code bcr666, but what if TreeWidget tries to
detect the visibility of itself? This has been my question.

And thank you Mike, I think I have tried componentShown, but it seemed
never fired. Anyway I will try it again.

Have a nice day!

thao_chuan