[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: what's the relationship between swt's fo

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

stefan.hansel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> If you have a typical 'Form'-Layout (i.e. labels before text-componentes 
> all aligned in the same columns/rows) than JGoodies Forms is superior to 
> all layout managers I've seen so far.
>
> Having to specify the same data again and again for all similar fields 
> is really annoying (like GridDatas) and waste of characters ;).

GridDataFactory is your friend. I don't know why it is not more 
well-known or more used in the Eclipse IDE code; it's a very handy 
utility and makes the code for consistent GridLayout-based UIs a *LOT* 
cleaner.

Hope this helps,
	Eric