Re: grid for swing-design

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From: Bill Joy
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 00:00

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No, the UI designer does not have an option to draw a grid on the design
surface to help with component positioning.  Doing rigid layouts is
generally a bad idea -- you should tell the container layout manager
where a component belongs in relation to other components instead.  This
allows you to successfully handle look & feel changes as well as
localization where translated strings would otherwise be clipped.

Thomas Abbrederis wrote:
> 
> Hello!!
> I have a question, i got the JBuilder3 from the Homepage, and now I wanna
> design a Swing-based Application, is it possible to get a grid in the
> Designer?!? Like in Visual Cafe!!
> Because in the other way, without a grid it is very hard to design!
> 
> Thanks for reply!!
> 
> Have a nice day!
> Ciao Tom!!

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