Internal Workings

These topics cover internal functionality of the framework for anyone wanting to become more familiar with how Modern Docking works. This knowledge is not required for using Modern Docking.

ActiveDockableHighlighter

The ActiveDockableHighlighter is responsible for drawing a border around the dockable that the mouse is currently over. Using an AWT event listener on the AWT Toolkit lets us listen for all mouse events in the entire application.

AppStatePersister

Used to call AppState.persist whenever a Window instance resizes, moves or changes state.