Getting Active Dockable or Top Left Dockable

[darylh...@gmail.com]

Hi, 

Just started using vldocking and so far it has been great. I am creating an app that will allow a user to create ssh sesisons and move them around in a tabbed/docked manner. 

My current issue is adding a new ssh session to the DockingDesktop.

I currently do this 

    public void launchSshSession(SshConnectionConfig sshConfig) {

        TerminalPanel terminalPanel = new TerminalPanel(sshConfig);

        terminalsDesktop.addDockable(terminalPanel);

    }

this will add the new terminal directly below the top left terminal in my current layout. 

I would like it to do one of the following (preferably 1). 

1. Add the new terminal on top of the currently active terminal. 

If I could do something like this, I think it would work great 

        TerminalPanel terminalPanel = new TerminalPanel(sshConfig);

        Dockable active = terminalsDesktop.getActive(); 

        terminalsDesktop.createTab(active, terminalPanel, 0, true);

But the method getActive does not exist. Any way to get the currently active Dockable ? 

2. Alternately I would be ok with adding it on top of the top left dockable, but not sure how to get this either. 

Any ideas ? I am quite sure this is probably possible, but I've been through the tutorials and browsed the javadocs and haven't been able to figure it out yet. 

Thanks, great framework. 

[Andreas Kuhtz]

Hi,

Doesn't DockingDesktop.getSelectedDockable() return the active Dockable?

Cheers
Andreas

[darylh...@gmail.com]

No, it doesn't seem to work. For me it returns null everytime. I took a look at the code and it says 

/** Returns the currently selected dockable, or null if none is selected.

*<p>

* A selected dockable is a dockable whose component contains the keyboard focus.

*/

public Dockable getSelectedDockable() {

return focusHandler.currentDockable;

} I am wondering if my panel for some reason has not registered the "keyboard" focus. So I tried it with one of the Dockable from the tutorial (MyTextEditor), when I put the focus in the text editor, it also returned null). I might have to take a look at the source and see if I can find anything in there.