Create trees with drag & drop, extended keyboard handling and advanced UI display styles; all while maintaining your JTree code. The JFCDataTree provides developers with a wealth of features while at the same time providing the only drop-in replacement for the standard JTree. Features include:

Drag & Drop Support

The JFCDataTree features full support for dragging and dropping of nodes.

Drag & Drop Listeners and Events

• Customize drag cursors.
• Begin drag event listener.
• Drag over a node event listener.
• Before drop event listener.
• After drop event listener.

Searching & Sorting

• Search descendants for a text.
• Sort children/descendants in ascending/descending order (case: sensitive/insensitive).

Additional Event Listeners & Keyboard Handling

• Before and after INSERT key press.
• Before and after DELETE key press.
• Adapters for all events specific to JTree (selection, model, etc.).
• Use the INSERT key to automatically insert new nodes.
• Use the DELETE key to automatically delete nodes.
• Before & After editing events.

Node Images

• 6 images per node. Add 3 extra images (collapsed/expanded/leaf) for the selected state of a node.
• Hide all node images (on/off).
• Hide +/- (on/off).
• Customize the width for the left and right ChildNodeIndents.
• Customize the font, foreground/background color and height for nodes.
• Built-in dynamic images for nodes (16 different image styles).
• Set the height for nodes.
• Customize the foreground/background colors and borders for selected nodes.

Support For Java Look And Feel (JLF)

• In addition to the standard enhancements ProtoView supplies for color/font/border styles with its JFC product offering, the JFCDataTree supports the standard Java Look and Feel (JLF) used in JFC.
• Set JLF colors and fonts (on/off).
• Set JLF images on nodes (on/off).
• Maintain the "Metal" JLF and ignore the UIManager (on/off).

Additional Display Styles

• Shadows.
• Borders.
• Absolute positioning of the first node in the tree.

Full Support For The Standard JTree Features

The JFCDataTree is compatible with existing JTree applications. Simply change the JTree reference to JFCDataTree, and you can continue to do application development with the standard JTree function calls while taking advantage of a number of ProtoView added features.

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JFCSuite, Winner of the 1999 Java Developer's Journal
Editor's Choice Award, "Best Bean."
- Java Developer's Journal, Award

JFCDataExplorer, Winner of the 1998 Java Developer's Journal
Editor's Choice Award, "Best Bean."
- Java Developer's Journal, Award

JFCDataExplorer, Winner of the 1999 Java Pro
Reader's Choice Award, "Best Visualization Tool"
-Java Pro, Award

"...a component library custom-designed for programmers 
who want to add a touch of professionalism and a lot of 
user-friendliness to their programs."
-Java Pro, Review

"...[JFCDataExplorer] is one of those rare components that is
attractive from a user interface and a component
model/language point of view. If you want a
practical example of the power of JFC, download a
fully functional evaluation copy from the
ProtoView Web Site (http://www.protoview.com/demos)."
- Java Pro, Review

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This page was last updated Thursday, February 24, 2000.