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<b>General</b>
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<h1>:: Readme :: Forms 1.0.5 ::</h1>
<i>Build better screens faster</i>
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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.
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Forms requires Java 1.4 or later.
A version for Java 1.3 is
<a href="https://forms.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=622">here</a>.
<h2>Getting Started</h2>
Forms ships with a <a href="docs/tutorial/introduction.html">tutorial</a>
and tutorial sources. The compiled tutorial is available as
<a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/formsdemo/">Forms Demo</a>.
And you can find more examples at
<a href="http://www.JGoodies.com/freeware/">www.JGoodies.com/freeware</a>.
As a next step you can study the
<a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/articles/">JGoodies articles and presentations</a>.
<h2>Support</h2>
<b>Please check the FAQ and do not send personal mail!</b>
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the list's archive.
And you can direct new questions to
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Please
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with this list before you post; otherwise I need to manually accept your messages.
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Also, you can use the
<a href="https://forms.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectIssues">issue tracker</a>
to find issues regarding the Forms. As a project observer you can log defects,
request features and suggest enhancements.
<h2>Distribution Contents</h2>
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<td>programmer's tutorial</td>
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<td>programmer's reference</td>
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<td>a background article about the Forms</td>
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<td>tutorial sources</td>
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<td>this readme file</td>
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<td>Release Notes</td>
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<td>zipped library sources</td>
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<h2>Open Issue</h2>
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.<br>
I'm looking for a means to let the layout grid honor these components
that is both powerful and easy to understand.
See the <a href="docs/faq.html#3.5">FAQ</a> for details and a workaround.
<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
The Forms project has been financed by Johannes Riege, the Java desktop
team at Sun Microsystems and customers of the
<a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/products/index.html">JGoodies Swing Suite</a>.
It is only with their money that I can provide, maintain, and improve
this library at no charge.
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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.
<h2>You can Help</h2>
If you save time and money using the JGoodies Forms, you may help me
finance my Java desktop activities by licensing the commercial
<a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/products/index.html">JGoodies Swing Suite</a>.
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