[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Porting the JGoodies FormLayout to SWT

["Karsten Lentzsch" <Karsten.Lentzsch@xxxxxx>]

"David J. Orme" <daveo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David,

I should be glad if you would enable the
SWTworkbench to work with grid-based
layout managers like: TableLayout, HIGLayout,
ExplicitLayout and my FormLayout.

These share the following concepts:
column and row default alignments,
column and row initial size,
column and row resize behavior,
cell position and span,
cell alignment, and
cell sizing behavior.

If you could prepare the SWTworkbench
to work with logical sizes, e.g. "the platform's
default gap between two related command buttons"
that would be great - regardless whether you can
actually work with my FormLayout or not.

> I just think that a lot of people (myself included)
> don't have the typeography and graphic arts
> background that you do to notice the difference
> that much.

Several issues that I address in my tools and demos
are subtle and difficult to perceive individually;
they become visible if you combine 20 of them.
Other issues are quite obvious, for example
if you change the font size - as more and more
people do to work smoothly on hi-res screens.
I'm going to demonstrate some of these effects
in a talk at this year's JavaOne.

And btw, my background is all but visual:
group theory and compiler construction :)

Best regards,
--
Karsten Lentzsch
www.JGoodies.com - Java User Interface Design