Why the flock are Layout's so compilcated
800308Jul 27 2007 — edited Jul 30 2007Folks,
Forgive me for being a whinger, but I've come from too many years of using VB's easy to use GUI designer to accept Swings Layout Managers. They're crap.
They're complex, they're difficult to use, and impossible to actually control... in fact they're just downright nasty.
I'm imagining an AbsoluteLayoutManager which lets you just absolutely position the controls on the form (like VB) and then allows you to implement a FormResized event handler (like VB) where you manually calculate the new absolute positions of the controls on the form... which (though it can be a pain in the arse) was I think simpler than even reading, let alone understand, the volumes of documentation on the various Layout Managers.
The volumes of documentation are in themselves an indication that the whole setup stinks.
Does anyone think this is a good idea? Do you think it's doable? On a scale from 1 to astrophysics, how do you think it'd be?
Keith.