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Article #9716Re: grid for swing-design
From: Thomas Abbrederis
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:00
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Hi Bill!! Thx for reply!! I would try your Suggestion!! Have a nice day!! Ciao Tom!! rwilkman <rwilkman@inprise.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 389F1166.20680C3D@inprise.com... > 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. > =====
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