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Patrick W. McMichael wrote:
> Does Borland have any intention of supporting the SpringLayout in 
 > JBuilder's UI designer?  This is a valuable layout, especially in
 > terms of dealing with resizing issues.

For several versions jbuilder.jar has contained several 
SwingLayout-related classes that are not enabled.  My guess is that they 
intend to support it eventually but haven't yet figured out the right 
UI.  Having tried it myself once, I can say it's not an easy thing to 
create a usable interface for editing SpringLayout constraints.  There 
are almost more options than for GridBagLayout.

If you want to experiment (I make no assurances about what this may or 
may not break) you could try enabling it yourself.  Make a file whose 
contents are as shown below (two lines, 2nd line starts w/ a space). 
Create a JAR with this file as the manifest (jar cmf foo.txt foo.jar). 
Then put the JAR file in JBuilder's lib/ext directory and restart 
JBuilder.  You *might* have some kind of SpringLayout support after that.

OpenTools-Designer:
  com.borland.jbuilder.cmt2.designer.ui.SpringLayoutAssistant

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Gillmer J. Derge [TeamB]