which layout to choose from

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2 total messages Started by Jonny Oenning Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:45

#573

Author: Jonny Oenning
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:45

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Hi All,

I'm writing a "simple" maintenance type of program, such as customer
maintenance.
Image a couple of dozen fields spread over a screen in 2 or 3 columns.
(cust-no, name, address, etc, etc..)

What would be the best layout to use in such instances? (or combination of
panes / layout) ??

Thanks
Jonny Oenning

Re: which layout to choose from

#575

Author: Lori M Olson [TeamB]
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:31

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Jonny Oenning wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm writing a "simple" maintenance type of program, such as customer
> maintenance.
> Image a couple of dozen fields spread over a screen in 2 or 3 columns.
> (cust-no, name, address, etc, etc..)
> 
> What would be the best layout to use in such instances? (or combination of
> panes / layout) ??
> 
> Thanks
> Jonny Oenning
> 
> 

If your dialog is simple enough, a combination of BorderLayout and 
GridLayout or BoxLayout in combination with sub-panels might work.

But, it might be better to just pull out the most versatile tool in the 
box and go straight for GridBagLayout.  I know that people who haven't 
taken the time to learn it properly really hate GridBag, but once you 
learn how it works, you can really make any dialog, no matter how 
complex, layout exactly the way you want.

-- 

Regards,

Lori Olson [TeamB]

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