JDesktopPane & JToolBar

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to put a JToolBar and a JPanel (to represent a status bar) to my JDesktopPane, but it doesn't work.
So I tried several solutions :
- one time the JToolBar appears but the 2 JInternalFrames don't work perfectly : when you click on the title bar of one of those JInternalFrames, it fills all the width and height of the JDesktopPane !?!
- and now, the JToolBar and the JPanel don't appear on the screen.
It seems that it depends the place where I put "setContent(desktop)". I don't know why. I tried to put it other ways, and there's always a thing that don't work !
Please if you have any idea, help me.
Thanks
Yann
Here's my code (it is very inspired of the tutorial) :
public class InterfaceGraphique extends JFrame {
public InterfaceGraphique () {
super("title");
Container content = getContentPane();     
content.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
desktop = new JDesktopPane(); //a specialized layered pane
//Make dragging faster:
desktop.setDragMode(JDesktopPane.OUTLINE_DRAG_MODE);
createFrame(); // creation of my 2 internal frames          
buildUI(content);     // GUI of the principal frame
setContentPane(desktop);
private void buildUI(Container content) {
panelStatusBar = new JPanel();
panelStatusBar.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLoweredBevelBorder());
statusBar = new JLabel("Welcome", JLabel.LEFT);
panelStatusBar.add(statusBar);
setJMenuBar(createMenuBar());          
toolBar = new JToolBar();
addButtons(toolBar);
content.add(toolBar, BorderLayout.NORTH);
content.add(panelStatusBar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

Don't set the desktop as the content of the frame. Instead use a JPanel with a BorderLayout to which you add the Tool and Status bar as you are doing and also add desktop with BorderLayout.CENTER. You'll need to ensure that your internal frames are added to the desktop and not the JPanel.