Of course your response really argues for a Matisse-like tool for JavaFX -- one that a corporate developer would use for an internal app.
It seems like the design tool is really not this. It might double as this -- but only if someone puts on that hat and ensures it really makes sense as such, has good drag-and-drop layout management of complex forms, etc. TorNorbye wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
