@Chuck Yes and no. I mean HTML+JS+CSS. I'm still struggling with something like the attached image (hopefully the attached image won't get cut out). There's mig layout that sort of comes close, but overall my experience with swing (including its layouts) is that it's fine as long as I need to position a few elements here and there (and I definitely like it more than WinForms). But overall the amount of configuration, clicking in netbeans, adding libraries for validation balloon popups etc, adding listeners for focus lost, writing methods for programmatically updating fields and making sure that the same logic as onFocusLost is executed, listening to document changes on text fields etc is just enormous. Maybe there's some silver bullet that I don't know of.
And you might say that I'll get all the same problems with an html/js/css solution. But there are probably 2 billion devs working on the tech every day, pushing dozens of libs every year. How much progress is there in the Java Swing world? We're stuck with solutions a decade old (I might be wrong though). PS: I haven't tried javafx. I tried to try it once a very long time ago (when I knew much less than now), didn't get it, stuck with swing. Started using NBP - looked like swing was the first class citizen, so again that was my choice. On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Chuck Davis <cjgun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dmitry, that is the whole purpose of Swing layouts. HTML tables cannot > compare with the functionality of layouts. > > > I also constantly find myself struggling with creating forms in swing that > > are just used to represent parameters for command line programs, it's > > always tricky for me to make everything aligned and resize nicely. Form > > validation is yet another pain in the ass, especially when it comes to > the > > visual part of notifying the user what's wrong in which part of the form. > > It would be so nice if all of this could just be rendered as a simple > html > > table with my choice of js validation framework and that I didn't have to > > think about layouts etc too much. > > > > >
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