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JDesktopPane inside JScrollPane resize issue


I have a JDesktopPane inside a JScrollPane. Inside the JDesktopPane there are many JInternalFrames, added programmatically. I would like to have this behavior:

Basically the same behavior that every image editor has (i.e. Photoshop), but with JInternalFrames in the viewport instead of an image.

At first I thought this behavior would be easy to get, but I can't get it quite right. Surely I'm missing something about layouts or something related...

Here's the related SSCCE

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Rectangle;

class Main extends JFrame {

    JDesktopPane container = new JDesktopPane();

    // New frame with 2 JInternalFrames inside a JDesktopPane inside a JScrollPane
    Main(){
        super("JDesktopPane SS");
        setSize(1280, 720);

        setLayout(new ScrollPaneLayout());

        container.setBounds(new Rectangle(1920, 1080));

        JScrollPane scrollContainer = new JScrollPane(container, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED, JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
        setContentPane(scrollContainer);

        container.add(createFrame());
        container.add(createFrame());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> {
            // Create new frame with 2 JInternalFrames inside a JDesktopPane inside a JScrollPane
            JFrame main_frame = new Main();

            main_frame.setVisible(true);
        });
    }

    // Create new InternalFrame with a TextPane
    private JInternalFrame createFrame(){
        JInternalFrame new_frame = new JInternalFrame("Document");
        new_frame.setResizable(true);

        JTextPane txt = new JTextPane();
        txt.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 80));
        new_frame.add(txt);

        new_frame.pack();
        new_frame.setVisible(true);

        return new_frame;
    }
}

Solution

  • JScrollPane viewports don't respect size or bounds but rather preferred sizes. So

    class Main extends JFrame {
    
        private static final int DT_WIDTH = 1920;
        private static final int DT_HEIGHT = 1080;
        private JDesktopPane container = new JDesktopPane();
    
        public Main(){
            super("JDesktopPane SS");
            setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            setSize(1280, 720);
    
            // setLayout(new ScrollPaneLayout()); // ?????
    
            // container.setBounds(new Rectangle(1920, 1080));
            container.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(DT_WIDTH, DT_HEIGHT));