Re: [Freecol-developers] Layout Limitations

[Michael B. <Mic...@gm...>]

Zyor Taelon wrote:
> When looking for a possible alternative I came across 
> http://www.miglayout.com/
>
> looks pretty versatile.
> Perhaps worth looking into.

Yes, I have seen miglayout. It seems pretty powerful. You can find a 
list with some interesting layout managers here: 
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javadesktop/LayoutManagerShowdown

If we were to start from scratch, I would probably choose miglayout. 
However, someone might well be already familiar with another layout manager.

Regards

Michael

>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Michael Burschik 
> <Mic...@gm... <mailto:Mic...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     At the moment, we are using HIGLayout for most of our layout needs. It
>     is simple and works quite well in most cases. However, it has one
>     major
>     drawback: if a component spans several cells, its size is not
>     taken into
>     account when the size of the cells is calculated. This leads to rather
>     ugly layout glitches in some cases. HIGLayout does not seem to be
>     actively maintained anymore, but I assume it would be possible to fix
>     this wart. Should we attempt to do this, should we look for some
>     kind of
>     workaround (using struts or boxes), or should we switch to some other,
>     more powerful layout manager? If the latter, which one would seem
>     to be
>     most suitable?
>
>     Regards
>
>     Michael
>