[ImageJ-devel] Java Swing layout

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Nico,

> I remember that you mentioned the MiG Layout manager a while back on
> one of the mailing list, and am curious to hear if you have experience
> working with it, and whether or not it would be worth trying it out.

MigLayout is my layout manager of choice. Be warned that I always hand code
my GUIs, but I think MigLayout removes some of the most painful aspects of
it. If you "git grep" the ImageJ2 codebase for MigLayout, there are a few
examples in there. Here is a pretty good one:

https://github.com/imagej/imagej/blob/imagej-2.0.0-beta-7.5/ui/swing/commands/src/main/java/imagej/ui/swing/commands/CommandFinderPanel.java#L134

But really the MigLayout white paper linked from their front page is pretty
much all you need to know to get started!

Regards,
Curtis


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Nico Stuurman <nico.stuurman at ucsf.edu>wrote:

> Hi Curtis,
>
> I'll be embarking on writing a Micro-Manager plugin to control a diSPIM
> microscope and will need to do quite a bit of GUI code writing.  So far I
> have mainly been using the Netbeans GUI builder, or hand-coding GUIs, none
> of which are very nice.  I remember that you mentioned the MiG Layout
> manager a while back on one of the mailing list, and am curious to hear if
> you have experience working with it, and whether or not it would be worth
> trying it out.
>
> Thanks for you opinion!
>
> Best,
>
> Nico
>
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