:: Readme :: Forms 1.6.0 ::
The Forms framework helps you lay out and implement
elegant Swing panels quickly and consistently.
It makes simple things easy and the hard stuff possible,
the good design easy and the bad difficult.
The JGoodies Forms requires Java 6 or later
and the JGoodies Common library.
Library versions for older Java versions are available in the
JGoodies Archive.
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 the FAQ for details and a workaround.
Acknowledgements
The Forms project has been financed by Johannes Riege,
and customers of the
JGoodies Swing Suite.
It is only with their money that I can provide, maintain, and improve
this library at no charge.
FormLayout has been inspired by Mullet&Sano's grid system,
Daniel Barbalace's TableLayout, Daniel Michalik's HIGLayout,
and Doug Stein's GridBagLayout. The concept of dialog units
stems from Microsoft user interface implementations.
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