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From: Michael B. <Mic...@gm...> - 2008-08-09 07:47:02
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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 > |