Loading Screen?

[mbelly]

We have an app that allows the user to save and load different layouts and dockable frames. When a user loads a layout, the windows will load up one at a time and then bounce into their saved position. First of all, is there a way to alleviate that behavior? If not, how would I go about implementing a 'loading' screen that will cover the applet area with a panel while the windows do their thing? I have tried an Overlayable, but that did not seem to cover what I needed.

Thanks,
~Matt

[JIDE Support]

That's not right behavior. You can take a look at DockingFrameworkDemo to see how we did it. You can see this demo doesn't have that behavior. The possible reason is you might set the frame visible beforehand. Note loadLayoutData will call setVisible at the end so you don't want to call setVisible before that. There could be other reasons that I don't know but if you can send me a test case to show the wrong behavior, I can take a look and tell you what's wrong.

Thanks,