MDIFramework provides a ready-to-use architecture to ease the creation MDI-style applications in Java. It takes care of the overall architecture of the main window of the application, with a tabbed architecture, the presence of an HTML printable message area, and so on. It provides a generic API to manage lengthy actions, keeping the interface responsive, and taking care that actions are performed one at a time, without having to bother about it. It can add metadata to already opened files. It manages loading and unloading of external plugins at runtime.
| Tags | Desktop Library Java library |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Apache 2.0 LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Linux Mac OS X Android 2.2 |
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Release Notes: This release replaces the noui and complete versions of the distribution with: core, ui, and complete version. It adds a method to replace the component in the MDIApplication with another. It changes the signature of the FileProperties methods to deal with JComponents rather than Components. It adds a new MDIApplication that is also a JavaFX application (only working for JVMs >= 7.0). It also adds a new core release that contains this class.


Release Notes: This release adds a method in the Abstract Plugin class to get the context ClassLoader. It fixs the MDIFileUtils.getFile(URL) method when the path contains space characters.


Release Notes: This release adds two methods in the FileProperties class that redirect to the MetaData class. It adds several methods in the AbstractMDIApplication class and the TabbedApplication interface to close the currently selected tab, all tabs, or all tabs except the currently selected one. It renames the getprefroot method in the ConfigurationManager class to have a more readable name.


Release Notes: Allows you to use more than one Plugin directory. Allows you to use the LauncherConf class with URLs base directories. Allows you to use more than one Plugin directory: the plugins URL list can be directories or jar files.


Release Notes: This release protects the LauncherConf class against problems which could happen during class initialization in cases in which the userdir of the launcher program has been moved away from the jar file.
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