Hi Ernie This has spawned an interesting thread and I appreciate many of the arguments, particularly about the fact that this may make you dependent on netbeans. I would counter that only by saying that if you use the fancy GUI tools in visual studio for .NET you are going to be similarly trapped I believe.
I will still say though that for me, someone who knows next to nothing about GUI creation and with very little interest in the subject, Matisse is a perfect way to slap something acceptable together incredibly quickly (I can re-create the jFlubber GUI in under 5 minutes, something I absolutely could not do with any kind of code based approach). Matisse is obviously a bit of an evolutionary dead- end now with JavaFX in the picture, but I appreciate environments that give me this kind of GUI constructor kit (like FlexBuilder for example) and get me back to the stuff that I am really interested in writing. So, all in all, good points, but I totally stick by what I said. Perhaps Matisse itself is no longer the answer, since the future appears to be going elsewhere, but right now, if I want to slap together a simple GUI in java super-quickly, I am still going to use Matisse until something better (for me) comes along. Cheers Dick 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
