Name: diC59631 Date: 07/29/98


The best implementation of dockable tool bars
that I've seen on Windows is the one used by
Office.

The specific differeces:

Multiple toolbars/edge are supported transparently.

The toolbar's docking behaviour is transparent
and realtime. When the floating window is dragged
to a "toolbar acceptor" location (the frame edges
would work well in java, I think) the tool bar
is simply added. If the drag operation continues,
the toolbar will undock.
(Review ID: 36035)
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Name: yyT116575 Date: 06/13/2001


java version +1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, mixed mode)

Applications having a large number of commands end up with a large number of toolbar buttons, combos and text fields. These toolbar widgets can be grouped logically into toolbar groups.

An application should be able to show or hide a toolbar group (and not only the whole toolbar), to undock a toolbar groups one at the time and to dock different groups on the four edges of the user area, as in applications like MS-word or Autocad.
(Review ID: 126490)
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