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Thanks for your detail information!
Honestly, we are thinking using JFrame or MDI application with JInternalFrame?
I would like clarify that your user like JFrame or MDI?

Betty

X_Aki Nieminen_X wrote:

> Should you use MDI application with JInternalFrames in it?
>
> Do keep in mind, that JInternalFrame is not a real native window in
> operating system so you cannot take "print screen" from the active window.
> You will always get "print screen" from entire Java application (main window
> + internal frames).
>
> I have a project, where we convert old native MDI application to Java. I
> made a decision, that it is more feasible not to use MDI application.
> We have FrameMain window with tree structure displaying the menu hierarchy.
> Users can open windows by clicking the tree leafs. Each window is JFrame, so
> task bar has several buttons in it. I have found this very convinient after
> longer usage. It is very easy to jump from one window to another using the
> task bar buttons. Buttons have a text, which says the "title of window" so
> proper window is found immediately.
>
> MDI applications tend to have problem with several windows overlapping each
> other. It is annoying to move them around just to find a one window. Doing
> so means, that other windows must be moved back when continuing working with
> them. Only few end users realize the meaning of "window" menu entry. It is
> more general and intuitive to have buttons in a task bar for each opened
> window.
>
> Only feature I would like to see is an ability to open JFrame as modal.
> JDialog does not have min/max buttons, so it is not always best possible
> solution (but only solution, if must have a modal windows in Java,
> unfortunately).
>
> My advice is to take same approach as I did. Our end users like this new
> system more better than previous one. It is true, that their first
> impression was "we don't like this, we want old-style windows". Changes are
> a pain sometimes. But after few days, they realized the true benefit of the
> new windowing system and never want to go back.
>
> There are some more differences between JFrame, JDialog and JInternalFrame.
> It would nice to have a list of different features. This is my start:
> JFrame:
> * opened as native OS window (can take "print screen")
> * displays a button in task bar
> * has min/max/close icons at top-right corner
> * cannot be opened as modal (=blocks GUI until is closed)
>
> JDialog:
> * opened as native OS window
> * does not display a button in task bar
> * does not display min/max icons at top-right corner
> * requires a frame as parent window (thought, can be invisible window)
> * can be opened as modal
>
> JInternalFrame
> * used within MDI application (within main Frame window)
> * is not a native OS window
>
> > My Platform is Window environment....
> > When I create a JFrame, I find that there is display in the Task Bar(at
> >the bottom).
> > When I create a JDialog, there is no display in the Task Bar(at the
> >bottom).
> > In my project, I would like to create a JDialog/JFrame but without
> >displaying anything in the Task Bar.
> > I think the JDialog can achieve it. However, it hasn't provided any
> >minimze, maximize button at the right
> > hand corner. For JFrame, it do provide the minimize, maxiimize button
> >at the right corner but it display
> > in the Task Bar.
> > So, How can I achieve both points (1-not display in the Task Bar,
> >2-provide minimize and maximize button)?