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JGoodies FormLayout - Which version is supported? [message #1381025]

Sun, 25 May 2014 10:47

Timo Rumland

Messages: 6
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello,

I would like to get started with WindowBuilder (using Eclipse Kepler Service Release 1,
Build id: 20130919-0819) and the JGoodies FormLayout layout manager.

As I used FormLayout in the past in our project, I already got the JARs on the classpath, which are these:

jgoodies-forms-1.8.0.jar
jgoodies-common-1.8.0.jar

As you see, it is the latest version of JGoodies FormLayout.

When I now start building the GUI with WindowBuilder, it generates the following code:

// [...]
setLayout( new FormLayout(new ColumnSpec[] {
	com.jgoodies.forms.factories.FormFactory.RELATED_GAP_COLSPEC,
	com.jgoodies.forms.factories.FormFactory.DEFAULT_COLSPEC,
// [...]

With JGoodies FormLayout version 1.6, the class "FormFactory" has been renamed to "FormSpecs".

So, my question is - which version of JGoodies FormLayout does WindowBuilder support exactly?

Is support for the latest version planned?

Thanks a lot for your help!

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Re: JGoodies FormLayout - Which version is supported? [message #1381342 is a reply to message #1381025]

Sun, 25 May 2014 14:03

Eric Clayberg

Messages: 979
Registered: July 2009
Location: Boston, MA

Senior Member

WindowBuilder ships with JGFL 1.3.0 (forms-1.3.0.jar).

We don't plan to update the support anytime soon, but would take a patch from someone who wants to update it.

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Re: JGoodies FormLayout - Which version is supported? [message #1382003 is a reply to message #1381342]

Sun, 25 May 2014 20:49

Timo Rumland

Messages: 6
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Thanks a lot for your answer.

Manuel Laggner offered a patch for JGoodies FormLayout 1.7.2 already here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=387771#c2

Maybe this could be patched into a new release of WindowBuilder.

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Re: JGoodies FormLayout - Which version is supported? [message #1411384 is a reply to message #1381025]

Sat, 23 August 2014 06:13

Markus Bollig

Messages: 0
Registered: August 2014
Location: Germany

I've created a patch that adds support for version 1.8.0 of the JGoodies FormLayout.
I would be very pleased if you could integrate the patch as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Markus