JGoodies Forms 1.0 API
This document describes the API of the JGoodies Forms,
a framework that helps you lay out and implement
elegant Swing panels quickly and consistently.
com.jgoodies.forms.builder | Contains optional builder classes of the Forms framework. |
com.jgoodies.forms.debug | Consists of optional classes that help you find,
understand and fix layout problems. |
com.jgoodies.forms.extras | Contains optional Forms framework classes that ship only with
the JGoodies Forms source distribution and are not yet part
of the binary Forms library. |
com.jgoodies.forms.factories | Consists of optional Forms framework factory classes that assist you
in building consistent forms quickly. |
com.jgoodies.forms.layout | Contains the core classes of the JGoodies Forms framework:
layout manager, column and row specifications, sizes and cell constraints. |
com.jgoodies.forms.util | Consists of Forms framework helper classes for unit conversion and layout styles. |
This document describes the API of the JGoodies Forms,
a framework that helps you lay out and implement
elegant Swing panels quickly and consistently.
Forms makes simple things easy and the hard stuff possible,
the good design easy and the bad difficult.
Forms requires Java 1.4 or later.
A version for Java 1.3 is
here.
Getting Started
Forms ships with a
tutorial
and tutorial sources. The compiled tutorial is available as
Forms Demo.
And you can find more examples at
www.JGoodies.com/freeware.
As a next step you can study the
JGoodies articles and presentations.
Open Issue
There's a weakness in the FormLayout that may require an API extension.
Components that span multiple columns or rows do not affect
the column width or row height resp.,
but can in some cases expand the container.
I'm looking for a means to let the layout grid honor these components
that is both powerful and easy to understand.
See item #3.5 in the accompanying FAQ for details and a workaround.
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