Javabeans do not move with window

Question

I have spent some time getting a JavaBean in to Forms 6i - and after many hours and painstaking searching through Metalink, on-line help, HTML docs etc I eventually got a simple bean into a form and it displays ok when run, only to discover that if I move/resize/minimize the form in which the bean is embedded the bean remains where it was first displayed, independent of what is happening to the form.
In article 120606.1 on Metalink it states that this is intended behaviour as the bean implementation is a Heavywight component and Forms 6i is lightweight based and will be fixed in Forms 7.0, the workaround is to hack the beanarea class provided as part of forms - is this accurate ?
I access the bean through a simple Wrapper class - as per on-line help in 6i
My wrapper class extends the VBean provided by Oracle and does nothing clever - My actual bean extends Canvas - should it extend something else (JPanel?)
I would post this to Metalink but I am a bit dubious about being pointed back to the document I found.
In summary :
Has anybody seen this behaviour, is the Metalink statement correct and is there an easy work around to it ?
Thanks in advance.
Simon W.

Answer 1

I thing i have a partial solution.
My Component is an extend of a JPanel. My javabean does not move with my forms.
The solution is to add a listener on the window module when the user move the forms window and set dynamically the position of your Component into the wrapper. Note i'm working with 6i.
public class YourWrapper extends VBean {
     public void init(IHandler handler) {
          // getting the Forms Main class
          formsMain = (Main) mHandler.getApplet();     
          // getting your forms window
          final LWWindow w = formsMain.getDesktop().getWindow(0);                           
          w.addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
               public void componentMoved(ComponentEvent e) {                         
                        System.out.println("Component w move ");                                            
                        // ADD YOUR Code here to set the position of your component
                        mycomp.setLocation( e.x, e.y);
               } // end componentMoved()
          } // end inner class
}This code maybe a partial solution.
Note my window is 0. maybe your window must be other value.