Cascade and Tile functionality is missing from JDesktopPane.

Using Swing 1.0.1 and JDK 1.1.5 - This is a desired enhancement.


ralph.kar@Eng 1998-11-11
More info from another user:

One of the things that a desktop manage will
typically do (although it may not) is resuffle
windows and icons around when the pane has been
resized.

A desktop manager will possibly do things like
re-arranging icons so that they stay at the
bottom of the pane. If the manage supports "tiled"
internal frames, then it might re arrange the
positions of internal frames. One thing that
even the default desktop manager
javax.swing.DefaultDesktopManger should to is
resize maximizedinternbal frames so that they
stay maximized.

You can implemet this functionality now with
appropriate listeners, But I really feel that
inside DesktopManager is where it belongs.

PS - no need to load up the default manager
with too much functionality. Things like
relocating iconised frames should be done
in MetalDesktopManager (which does not currently
exist). This because MS windows, at least, does
not do it, and so the windows look and feel
ought not.