On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:19:33 +0200 (CEST), Dimitri Smits <[email protected]> wrote:
> Warning: probably off-topic > > And a final note on those designers in java: you can and always had the > ability to use a NULL-Layout to use absolute layouting. That is the closest > to the way Delphi does it. There is also the FormLayout in Swing and SWT, which is pretty close to the anchors in Lazarus (don't know if recent Delphi version have them too, Delphi 7 didn't). But it's still a PITA to use them. NetBeans has a pretty sweet form designer, but nothing in the Java world I have used so far comes close to what I could do with Delphi and Lazarus. I sometimes design UIs in Lazarus just to port them to Java then, because it's much easier to play around and actually *do* something in Lazarus than it is in any of the Java IDEs. (That's actually even true for the code itself too. Java libraries are so much split up into different kinds of abstraction layers, that nearly no task can be done "just like that" ... there is not ".SaveToFile" or something, you always have to create a whole tree of objects just to pass through some data. Yeah, it's a very flexible design, but what the hell?! I don't need flexibility in 95% of the cases, I need to get the job done. Having flexibility as option? Sweet! Being forced to write the same stuff over and over and over? Not so sweet ...) </JavaRant> Best Regards, Andreas. P.S.: Sorry for another off-topic mail -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
