Have you looked into MigLayout? It's pretty sweet. On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:55 AM, Mikael Grev wrote:
> > The only sensible thing they can do for JavaFX is to add: > > 1) One kick-ass designer that is better than Matisse > 2) One kick-ass manual layout manager > 3) An easy and predictable way to move back and forth between 1 and 2. > > Cheers, > Mikael Grev > > On Jul 27, 1:29 pm, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think JavaFX could and probably should speak to the requirements >> and >> use cases currently addressed by Swing. >> >> I'd agree that it currently doesn't, however -- it does not provide >> enough components, no layout appropriate for complex forms, nor a GUI >> layout tool oriented at complex layout of components rather than >> working >> with designer assets. >> >> Chas Emerick wrote: >>> On Jul 24, 12:22 pm, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> 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. >> >>> I suppose I'll be the one to say it -- JavaFX doesn't speak at all >>> to >>> our requirements or use-cases, while Swing did and does. Given >>> that, >>> Matisse remains part of our core toolset, and none of the murmurings >>> around the JavaFX "designer tool" have given me any hope that that >>> will change anytime soon. >> >>> I'm certain I'm not the only one with that perspective, so I'd hope >>> that we could stay away from stuff like saying Matisse/Swing/et al. >>> are 'evolutionary dead-ends'. UI is all about getting pixels on the >>> screen in the way that will achieve the customers' goals -- nothing >>> more, nothing less -- and given that JavaFX is just another layer on >>> top of AWT, I think everyone would be better served by not thinking >>> about the former as some wholly-new revolutionary technology. >> >>> Cheers, >> >>> - Chas > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
