> Well really OFF-TOPIC: > > I've deal sometime with SWING layout, and it's difficult.
I would recommend using Instantiations' WindowBuilder http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilder/ It has a lot of featues that automate painting Swing layouts. Snap-to-position, align, etc. with your scalable controls as well. Really boosts productivity. Furthermore, perhaps the Awt Robot feature could be used for TDD with Swing: * http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2007/jw-07-fest.html ** Martin > > My last experience (a couple of years ago) was with a new layout, only > available on JAVA 6 (it can be added to java 5), > of which I can't remember the name., GroupLayout or something similar. > > At that time the only IDE that can deal with it was NetBeans 6 or more, it > was a really > nice way of constructing layouts (forget to do it without and ide really > difficult), and it > resulted in a nice working experience. > > hope it can helps > tonio > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Jeremy Thomerson <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> I would like to build a nice-looking java desktop application. I hope >> that isn't an oxymoron :). I have built some desktop apps before - a >> lot of command line utilities in various languages, and some GUI apps >> (perl, java, python, php, even vb (yikes!), c# etc...). >> >> The question is - what framework do you use for your UI components and >> layout on a desktop app? I would like to use Java because I'll be >> most efficient with it and it will work for me on linux machines and >> others on Windoze, etc.. But when I've built Swing apps in the past, >> I have hated having to layout everything in the code and I can never >> make anything aesthetically pleasing. So.... >> >> 1 - do you have any recommendations on a good framework for nice >> looking desktop apps? >> 2 - any other recommendations for desktop apps in general? >> 3 - It should be a lightweight, easy install - and I would prefer to >> stay away from using the Eclipse framework for building the app (I use >> the IDE but it doesn't need to be something that heavy for the GUI) >> 4 - I have even thought about building an app that opens a swing >> window that contains an embedded browser and jetty servlet running the >> app so that I can use Wicket. Has anyone thought of or done this >> before? >> >> Basically, it's a CRUD application, but containing personal data that >> the user should not store on someone else's server. I would use an >> embedded database that stores the data with encryption. >> >> Ideas? >> >> -- >> Jeremy Thomerson >> http://www.wickettraining.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
