AceMDI - Easy, yet powerful MDI at your fingertips

Introduction

AceMDI is a small MDI Framework that facilitates the creation of professional looking MDI applications.

With Swing, JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame are provided to use with MDI applications. But JInternalFrame has a rather annoying behavior. When maximized JInternalFrame only occupies the whole area of the desktop pane with its title bar as is. What a general GUI user expects is that the title bar should vanish and the minimize, maximize and close buttons should appear in the menu bar of main application frame. Due to this, many programmers do not use JInternalFrame.

Instead they use closeable Tabs to represent their documents. But in this approach they loose the facility to place to documents side by side in "restored" state to compare them.

AceMDI is made to solve exactly these two problems. It manages your "views" as closable tabs (with system menu) when maximized and as internal frames when restored or minimized.

Please note that AceMDI currently supports only windows and metal(including ocean) look and feels. Motif and GTK style look and feels are not supported. If support for these and some other look and feels is critical to your application please take a look at Supporting A Custom Look and Feel. in the quick start guide.

MDIFrame showing views as tabs.	MDIFrame showing views as internal Frames.

Getting Started Guide

Please see QuickStart.htm to get more information on how to use AceMDI.

Do you want to help?

If you want to help, then please download this release and use it. If you find any bugs or have some suggestions or questions, please mail them to pritam_g_barhate@rediffmail.com

Do you have queries about using AceMDI on Mac OS X?

Then send your queries to Yvon Thoraval. Yvon is helping me to make AceMDI work better on Mac Os X. Yvon is creator of JCave which is a wine cellar management software.