Most recent release 2006-April-7
FormLayout is a Java class for controlling the layout interface components in a panel. It is appropriate to use with Swing or AWT components. It includes some of the features of SpringLayout provided by Sun Microsystems or the FormLayout class provided by IBM in Eclipse. It uses constraints to place components relative to others, but usually requires less coding by the programmer.
- It allows a component to be placed a fixed distance from an edge of the container.
- It allows placement at a fixed distance from another component.
- It allows placement with one edge aligned with the same edge of another component.
- It allows placement at a fractional position within the available width or height of the container.
- An edge of a component can be constrained in more than one way, and the constraint which gives a larger size to the container will be the one adopted.
The April 2006 release uses a modified determination of container size that prevents problems in the first release which could cause some containers to be too small.
The class is provided only as source code. The file is 28K in size. A Javadoc description of the class and its methods is available for viewing. A small example program using FormLayout is also available.
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