Dockable Frames displayed in Parallel

[poregan]

I am trying to display 3 JPanel to the west of my mainframe and a 4th panel to the east of the mainframe but I do not want to fill the entire workspace with all panels. I would like to leave the workspace area not occupied free.

I can achieve this after the fact but not on loading of the panels.

I add each frame with the following criteria:

newFrame.getContext().setInitMode(DockContext.STATE_FRAMEDOCKED);
newFrame.getContext().setInitSide(DockContext.DOCK_SIDE_WEST);

It is not clear how I can line one Frame up after another as they seem to go underneath each other.

I have also set getDockingManager().setShowWorkspace(true); in an attempt to not fill the workspace.

Are there other variables I need to user?

[JIDE Support]

You can also call setInitIndex. If the frames have the same side and mode, the init index will put them in order. For the west side, they would be arranged vertically in a column. For the south side, horizontally in a row.

[poregan]

This doesn't seem to be the case in my implementing.

When I have the following:

newFrame.getContext().setInitMode(DockContext.STATE_FRAMEDOCKED);
newFrame.getContext().setInitSide(DockContext.DOCK_SIDE_WEST);
newFrame.getContext().setInitIndex(index++);

Where the index goes from 0,1,2 for my 3 panels. They panels are displayed one under another rather next to each other going left to right.

Is there a further setting which I am missing?

If I used setInitSide(DockContext.DOCK_SIDE_SOUTH) instead they do go side by side but are stretched out in the centre. I am trying to keep the panels to the left.

[JIDE Support]

As mentioned in the previous post, "For the west side, they would be arranged vertically in a column." Hence the behavior you observed are as designed. To achieve the behavior you want, please invoke DefaultDockingManager#moveFrame() to arrange the frames as you wish.

Thanks,