Window Element

Group membership: Document root

The window tag describes one window. Windows extends java.awt.Window. JGB only uses javax.swing.JDialog and javax.swing.JFrame. It would be a simple matter to add support for java.awt.Dialog and java.awt.Frame.

Attributes

Name

Type

Required

Description

class

CDATA

This attribute documents a fully qualified class name

Identifies the name by which this control will be referenced by other parts of the JGB XML file or Java code.

type

CDATA

Yes

Declare the type of window to instantiate.

Value	Description
jdialog	Declares that this window will be of the dialog variety.
jframe	Declares that this window will be of the frame variety.

<!-- Declare a new window named 'msgWindow' that displays as a frame. -->
<window id="msgWindow" type="jframe">
    …
</window>

None