Whether or not it /is/ Matisse, I'd expect a similar GUI layout tool /for developers/ for JavaFX. Corporate intranet application types have complex forms, etc, to layout that they just want to plop together and run -- they don't even have access to Illustrator, Photoshop, etc, etc, much less know how to use them. Easy, flexible, and maintainable GUI component layout is critical -- whether or not you throw an "FX" at the end of things.
Dick Wall wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
