🚀 go-pugleaf

Bill:

Ah, I misread the question.

You can get a grid if you use GridBagLayout but it's not like the
"showdots" concept familiar to co-ordinate based layout users.

-Rich

Bill Joy wrote:
> 
> 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!!

-- 
=====
Rich Wilkman
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
JBuilder Team

If something in this post looks like an opinion, walks like an
opinion and quacks like an opinion, it's mine and not that of
my employer.

If you are reading this from a newsgroup post, don't send mail.
=====