On 21.08.2010 21:19, Dimitri Smits wrote: > it seems you are comparing Java with the pascal world.
It was more about GUI design and layout managers in general. This is not a Java thing. I only mentioned the layoutmanager that comes with netbeans (it is not one of those that come with Swing out of the box, they have created their own) and the Form designer they created on top of it because it works quite well. Actually I have spent most of my time with wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) and wxPython and there the concepts of layout managers are basically same as they are in many other toolkits (Tk is another one I have used a few times). I find the balance between strictly absolute positioning (the null layout in Java that you mentioned) and the possibility of automatic sizing while still having a decent visual designer that lets the user smoothly and intuitively interact with it even in the presence of size constraining mechanisms (anchors) extremely well thought out and implemented in Lazarus. But this does not mean that there isn't room for even more improvement. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
