How to use MultiSplitLayout in SwingX?

Question

I am trying to use MultiSplitPane and MultiSplitLayout from SwingX. I know how to use MultiSplitLayout using the parseModel method (see http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/03/23/multi-split-pane.html ). But I do not understand the mechanism without this method. How to reproduce this?

String layoutDef = "(COLUMN (ROW weight=1.0 left (COLUMN middle.top middle middle.bottom) right) bottom)"; MultiSplitLayout.Node modelRoot = MultiSplitLayout.parseModel(layoutDef); 

Answer 1

Well, I finally found the answer myself. You must first look at the picture to understand the code.

 Split column1 = new Split(); column1.setRowLayout(false); Split row = new Split(); Split column2 = new Split(); column2.setRowLayout(false); column2.setChildren(new Leaf("middle.top"), new Divider(), new Leaf( "middle"), new Divider(), new Leaf("middle.bottom")); row.setChildren(new Leaf("left"), new Divider(), column2, new Divider(), new Leaf("right")); column1.setChildren(row, new Divider(), new Leaf("bottom")); // Once the layout is done, the code is easy JXMultiSplitPane msp = new JXMultiSplitPane(); MultiSplitLayout layout = new MultiSplitLayout(column1); msp.setLayout(layout); msp.add(new JButton("bottom"), "bottom"); msp.add(new JButton("left"), "left"); msp.add(new JButton("right"), "right"); msp.add(new JButton("middle.bottom"), "middle.bottom"); msp.add(new JButton("middle"), "middle"); msp.add(new JButton("middle.top"), "middle.top"); 

Picture to understand the logic of the code.
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