vldocking implementation with two views

[thenar]

Hi,
I'm working on an implementation with vldocking. Works great but I can't seem to get something working. Here's the case.

I want two views, at the left a taskview ( a VLDockingViewDescriptor), at the right a contentview ( a VLDockingViewDescriptor).
The taskview always has to be there and the contentview has to be replaced by other views. The initial layout is simple but how do i replace the contentview
I just want to hide the whole view but NOT with a autohide (I don't want to see a buttonbar with hidden views, I want to make them visible by selecting them in the view menu).

Could you please help?

[rdawes]

Does closing the current view, and opening the new view not work?

If it results in the right views being opened, but in the wrong place, take a look at the VLDockingLayoutManager interface.

[thenar]

possible, but how do I do that programaticaly?

[rdawes]

Sorry, this is the interface:

public interface VLDockingLayoutManager {

    void addDockable(DockingDesktop desktop, Dockable dockable);

    void removeDockable(DockingDesktop desktop, Dockable dockable);

}

This is the default implementation:

    private class DefaultLayoutManager implements VLDockingLayoutManager {

        public void addDockable(DockingDesktop desktop, Dockable dockable) {
            desktop.addDockable(dockable);
        }

        public void removeDockable(DockingDesktop desktop, Dockable dockable) {
            desktop.remove(dockable);
        }

    }

I suggest you look at the APIDOC for DockingDesktop (in the VLDocking distro), to understand how you can programmatically control where new Dockable's are placed.

http://www.vlsolutions.com/en/docume...ngDesktop.html

Hope this helps.

Rogan