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<h1>:: Tutorial :: Introduction ::</h1>
This tutorial aquaints you with the Forms layout model and API.
It introduces the basic and advanced layout features and explains
how to specify, build and debug layouts using the Forms framework.
You can find the accompanying sources for this tutorial
in directory <tt>src/tutorial/</tt>.
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<b>It is recommended to have the JGoodies Forms Demo open on your screen!</b>
<h2>Overview</h2>
FormLayout is a powerful, flexible and precise layout manager
that aligns components vertically and horizontally in a
dynamic rectangular grid of cells, with each component occupying
one or more cells.
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To define a form layout you specify the forms columns, rows
and optionally column groups and row groups.
Everything that applies to columns applies to rows too
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algorithms and implementation for columns and rows.
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information around the Forms: it analyses weakness of other layout systems,
presents the Forms design goals and concepts. Also it compares the
Forms with other layout managers and mentiones some future improvements.
<h2>Online Presentations</h2>
You can find a bunch of presentations about layout and general Swing issues at
<a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/articles/">http://www.jgoodies.com/articles/</a>.
These are available in English and German.
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