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Can not find GroupLayout??? [message #1007591] Wed, 06 February 2013 15:57 Go to next message
Tek Wojenski is currently offline Tek WojenskiFriend
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I can not find GroupLayout in the Layouts (SWT) in the palette. I have indigo 3.7 with the corresponding Windows Builder complete installation.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Re: Can not find GroupLayout??? [message #1007607 is a reply to message #1007591] Wed, 06 February 2013 17:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eric Clayberg is currently offline Eric ClaybergFriend
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When WindowBuilder became an Eclipse.org project in 2010, the SWT version of GroupLayout was removed due to IP issues. The supporting code was moved to an Eclipse Labs project...

http://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselabs.org/windowbuilder-extras/trunk/

Note that there are two WB builds out there... the one at Eclipse.org that does not include SWT GroupLayout and a second build maintained by Google that does...

https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/download-wbpro-beta

Personally, I think GroupLayout is pretty nasty so I don't recommend it in any case (pretty much write-only and very fragile). SWT GridLayout is far superior for SWT/RCP work and can do pretty much anything you could ever want.
Re: Can not find GroupLayout??? [message #1016078 is a reply to message #1007607] Mon, 04 March 2013 21:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Tek Wojenski is currently offline Tek WojenskiFriend
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Thanks Eric

BTW, do you still support customizers? When I right click on a Java component, I do not see the 'Customize' option. I believe it was there in your old releases?

Thank You.
Re: Can not find GroupLayout??? [message #1016234 is a reply to message #1016078] Tue, 05 March 2013 15:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eric Clayberg is currently offline Eric ClaybergFriend
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Yes. If the component has a customizer, that option should be available.
Re: Can not find GroupLayout??? [message #1016280 is a reply to message #1016234] Tue, 05 March 2013 19:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Tek Wojenski is currently offline Tek WojenskiFriend
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Yes, now I see that they are available. I was missing a special instantiations class. I also filed 2 problems in the bug tracker: They have to do with WB and classloader not going through every attached jar in the project to find required classes. The second one is with a property editor now opening and throwing a null pointer exception.

Thanks for you help

[Updated on: Tue, 05 March 2013 20:35]

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Re: Can not find GroupLayout??? [message #1016305 is a reply to message #1016280] Tue, 05 March 2013 23:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eric Clayberg is currently offline Eric ClaybergFriend
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Thank you for the bug reports, but it is very important that you provide complete, self-contained examples with each report. We need to be able to reproduce the problems in order to help you.
Re: Can not find GroupLayout??? [message #1016419 is a reply to message #1016305] Wed, 06 March 2013 12:02 Go to previous message
Tek Wojenski is currently offline Tek WojenskiFriend
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Sure thing. I will upload the plugins, projects, etc with the instructions, they tend to be a bit big ~60Megs, so i may give you a link to download from.

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