GroupLayout by itself is extremely hard to use. BUT, it was built with toolability in mind - and when used with NetBeans it works well.
I don't think anyone developing UIs should be writing layout code by hand. Perhaps MigLayout works with other IDEs - I don't use IntelliJ so I couldn't say for sure - but the reason I and others like GroupLayout so much is not because it's an elegant constraint system (it might well be, I don't know) but because it's really easy to use to bang out dialogs quickly which both have good baseline alignment as well as proper resize behavior (e.g. textfields stretch by default, radio buttons don't, etc.) -- Tor On Jul 23, 5:06 pm, Ernie MacNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, love the show. But please, stop singing the praises of Matisse > and GroupLayout whenver GUI development comes up. Look, I love > Netbeans and user it every day. Matisse is not the best it's not even > the easiest way of putting controls on the screen. Instead, replace > every mention of Matisse with MigLayout. It is the one and only layout > manager that any person developing a GUI should be using. > > Thanks! > > Ernie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
