Layout Management in GUI Designer

Absolute positioning is not supported.
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Maxim Shafirov
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

How can i use Absolute Layout with the GUI designer from IDEA.
Basically i would like to place the items at fixed location in the gui
designer something as in vb forms.

Thanks

Mum

Hello Maxim,

MS> Absolute positioning is not supported.

Fortunately :)
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Alexey Efimov, Java Developer
Tops BI
http://www.topsbi.ru

Hi
Any workarounds that can be used for achieving the same.
Thanks

Why don't you want to use a Layout Manager? It better than you knows how
to lay out components, because it knows the component's
minimum/preferred/maximum size at run-time, which may be different with
different look-and-feels and fonts.

Tom

The reason is that for simple gui forms i would prefer to have the gui components at fixed distance say from the top left and they are of fixed size.No doubt layout mgrs are very powerful.
Mum

Did you take a look at JFormDesigner?

Tom

Thks
It looks pretty good.
But why can't the same be achieved from inside IDEA when we have such agood IDE for Java.
Mum