Re: dialog with section hiding

From	Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Re: dialog with section hiding
Date	2013-05-17 16:55 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<kn5g5c$g72$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<dialog-20130517151431@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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On 17/05/2013 15:23, Stefan Ram allegedly wrote:
>   I want to program a dialog in Swing with hidden sections:
> 
> ..---------------------------------------.
> | User                                  |
> |---------------------------------------|
> | - Name (visible)                      |
> | first name: [James                  ] |
> | last name:  [Miller                 ] |
> |---------------------------------------|
> | + Day of Birth (hidden)               |
> |---------------------------------------|
> | - address                             |
> | city: [New York                     ] |
> | street: [avenue                     ] |
> '---------------------------------------'
> 
>   . Now, when the user clicks »+«, this changes to:
> 
> ..---------------------------------------.
> | User                                  |
> |---------------------------------------|
> | - Name                                |
> | first name: [James                  ] |
> | last name:  [Miller                 ] |
> |---------------------------------------|
> | - Day of Birth (shown)                |
> | year: [1999]                          |
> | month: [01]                           |
> | day: [01]                             |
> |---------------------------------------|
> | - address                             |
> | city: [New York                     ] |
> | street: [avenue                     ] |
> '---------------------------------------'
> 
>   When the user now clicks on »-« (in front of »Day«),
>   the dialog changes back to the first form.
> 
>   I guess I could figure out how to do it, but is there
>   any prior art related to this?
> 
>   Maybe there is a name for such a thing?
> 
>   Any ideas how to implement this efficiently (not 
>   reducing the time the computer needs to run this,
>   but my time to code it!)?

JTree <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JTree.html>
with some rendering tweaks. Then just show in it a JOptionPane dialog.

-- 
DF.

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