Re: [Jflight-dev] JAVA IDEs

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Hi Guido,

> Am Mon, 23. Apr 2001 um 21:17:54 +0200 schrieb Ruediger Bien:
> > Hi everyone,
>
> Hi Rüdiger,
>
> > I have made further tests with JBuilder4 and Forte. I have big problems
> > with JB4 to get the existing GUI-parts shown in the GUI-builder
> > correctly. In fact only the "about-box" works quite fine. What are your
> > experiences?
>
> Also "FlightBookDialog" does, because it loads its own (private, double)
> String-Ressources. "AboutBox" is shown correct because it does not use
> any (translated) String-Ressources. The other Dialogs load their
> translated String-Ressources over the construct:
>
> strRes = ((jFlightFrame) owner).strRes;
>
> Obviously JBuilder can not handle that at design time.
>
> > I have added another GUI-window now with Forte. Here the window-design
> > is stored in a additionally XML-coded file. This seems to be much more
> > reliable for me for the future.
>
> .... but is not Java2 compliant?
good point; I have compiled it successfully with jdk 1.1.8; fine ;-)
>
> > The GUI-builder, especially the layout
> > manager usage is handled much better by Forte compared with JB4. The only
> > drawback of Forte is that it crashes occasionally. Save often! It also
> > takes a little time to understand the usage and concepts which are a bit
> > different than in JB4.
> >
> > What do you think? Is it possible to go on designing GUIs with Forte? Or
> > maybe both tools? Any experiences on Forte?
>
> No experiences with Forte but no time either to get engaged with it.
>
> Gruß
> Guido

	Rüdiger