JGoodies like FormLayout

[stefan.popescu]

Hello,

Is it possible to implement a JGoodies like FormLayout using GXT ?

Thanks

[gslender]

Do you mean a layout manager similar to this...

http://www.jformdesigner.com/doc/help/layouts/formlayout.html

If so, I'd agree that smarter layout managers would be a nice feature to have.

[stefan.popescu]

Yep, that's the idea.

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/forms/index.html

[EvilTed]

We've used JFormDesigner for the past 3 years and love it for Swing development.
I emailed the author when I first started looking at GWT but he said they had no plans.
Maybe we should collectively hassle him to make one for GXT :)

ET

[stefan.popescu]

Please see:

http://code.google.com/p/gxt-jglayout/

[stefan.popescu]

The first advanced layout manager for ExtGWT (GXT) posted the 1.0 release today. Features include:
aligns components in a dynamic rectangular grid of cells
fully compliant with GXT layout mechanism
column and row specifications
horizontal grow, fill
horizontal alignments: left, center, right, fill
vertical alignments: top, center, bottom
sizes can be specified as: Pixel, Points, Inches, Millimeter, Centimeter and Dialog Units
resize weights
bounded, constant, minimum and preferred sizes
column and row groups
cell constraints
form builderNot supported in the 1.0 release are vertical sizes, vertical fill and vertical grow.

http://code.google.com/p/gxt-jglayout/

[chrismcnally]

I am working with this FormLayout JGoodies Forms clone for GWT and it's obvious the developer put a lot of work into it, and it contains most of the functionality of JGoodies Forms for Java. You can read the JGoodies Forms documentation to get a good understanding of the usage.

There is a google group for the new project, and I've brought up a couple of bugs and they were fixed right away.

I hope others will check out this layout and help keep this project going. It would be a great tool for GXT development.

[ljohnston]

The JGoodies Forms project for GXT hasn't had any activity since March. Is support for it going to fade away? Why doesn't EXT provide some development resources to this project? What is EXT's plan to fill the need for a more advanced and flexible form layout capability?