JFrame to JInternalFrame

[Cabaal]

Is anyone aware of the difficulties of transforming a JFrame to a JInternalFrame. Is this as easy as changing the extends class? Any hints are appreciated. I realize this does depend on the actions the JFrame takes, but they are fairly trivial. Thanks. Thanks,
Cabaal

 

[pipk]

Cabaal

Haven't had experience changing JFrame to JInternalFrame but did change an MDI application I had from JInternalFrame to JFrame.

What you have to remember is that you can only add an internal frame to a desktop manager, other wise it won't display. You actually sacrifice a bit of space with internal frames as well. I had an application that was fairly crammed as an internal frame but actually loooked a lot better as a JFrame.

A lot of the time it really is just a matter of extending the other class, but again the new class must be added to the desktop and can't simply be shown. I did have some repaint problems with a JInternalFrame as well, hence my decision to convert - it wasn't that I gave up (honest!) its just that it was on my final project for college and time was not something I had - and I didn't have enough technical knowledge regarding JInternalFrame operation to be able to address the problem. Changing it to a JFrame completely solved the problem though.