GroupLayout Support
How come IDEA does not support GroupLayout?
Designing GUIs with anything else is a real pain in the rear.
When I am desigining something I have 2 major requirements:
- I can put what I want where I want
- When I run it, it looks the same as when I am designing it
No other layout manager fulfils these requirements and it is the main reason that I still have Netbeans on my computer.
There is also an eclipse based GUI designer that supports GroupLayout.
It can even parse the code to create it without the *.form files!
http://code.google.com/javadevtools/wbpro/layoutmanagers/swing/index.html
How come IDEA does not support GroupLayout?
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http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEABKL-5213
Thanks.
I did search YouTrack before posting. Maybe the backlog was filtered out.
Its a shame that it doesn't look like it will be supported because the IDEA designer looks quite nice.
However, I never use it because of the lack of support for GroupLayout and just disable the plugin. :(
Back to Netbeans matisse it is!
The JFormDesigner plug-in (http://www.formdev.com/) for IntelliJ IDEA supports GroupLayout nearly the same way as NetBeans does. It can also convert NetBeans forms to JFormDesigner forms.
I agree with Karl. If you want a good GUI designer (for IDEA), try his
JFormDesigner plug-in (or standalone - no need for Netbeans any more).
Tom
The only problem is that plugin requires an extra licence and I'm a cheapo :)