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GroupLayout or FormLayout? [message #635997]

Thu, 28 October 2010 17:35

Eclipse User

So I was reading through these and I'm not sure what the differences between these two layout managers are:
SWT GroupLayout
SWT FormLayout

It seems that they are almost just two different implementations of the same thing.

Why would I choose one over the other?

Ryan

Re: GroupLayout or FormLayout? [message #636026 is a reply to message #635997]

Fri, 29 October 2010 01:00

Eclipse User

Hi,

SWT doesn't have GroupLayout. Please see this link for the layouts provided by SWT and information about each layout. --> http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/swt/layout/packag e-summary.html

Re: GroupLayout or FormLayout? [message #636159 is a reply to message #636026]

Fri, 29 October 2010 09:45

Eclipse User

So after a bit of research, it looks like the SWT GroupLayout is a port of the GroupLayout provided by Sun. I was thrown off because the package it was in made it look like it was part of the standard SWT

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is
 * subject to license terms.
 */ 

package org.eclipse.swt.layout.grouplayout;

However, even though it's not part of standard SWT, my question still stands.

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