Notice: This is an old project and it is not relevant any more. I uploaded it to GitHub because it shut down the original homepage of the project.

swt-forms

Preface

SwtForms is a partial port of JGoodies Forms for use with the SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) from the eclipse project. The original product JGoodies Forms is a ingenious Layout Manager for Java Swing from Karsten Lentzsch.

Main Differences to JGoodies Forms 1.0.2

• Java AWT "Component" objects are in SwtForms mostly SWT "Control" objects.
• Java Swing "JPanel" objects are in SwtForms mostly SWT "Composite" objects.
• The PanelBuilder never creates the composite for layout, you have to provide it to the construcor. Therefore the PanelBuilder has no getPanel() method.
• There exists no FormDebugPanel for debugging. To debug a layout, you can use the method "debugLayout()" from the FormDebugUtils class to turn on the debug grid on a composite.
• The "DialogUnit to pixel" - conversion need more work. The controls seems to be too small.
• The PanelBuilder has an additional "addButton()" method to create a Button and set its text with one line of code, wich ist not possible in SWT, is it?

Changelog

• Version 0.8.2 - January 21, 2004
  • First release
  • Renamed project from "SharpLayout" to "SwtForms"
• Version 0.8.3 - January 26, 2004
  • ButtonBarFactory didn't work yet. Fixed. See API Docs for usage. Needs a review for a more SWT specific way.
• Version 0.8.4 - March 22, 2004:
  • DefaultFormBuilder & I15dPanelBuilder from the extras package. Thanks Zohar.
• Version 0.8.5 - April 10, 2005
  • Removed dependency on AWT Insets class by implementing an own Insets class. Reason: problems on Mac OS X. Thanks Praveen.
• Version 0.9.0 - May 5, 2008 (experimental)
  • Updated to the codebase of JGoodies Forms 1.0.7. Many thanks to Stefan Hansel, who did a thorough job on this.
• Version 0.9.1 - October 8, 2008
  • Fixed bug in DefaultFormBuilder concerning labels with mnemonic. Thanks Stefan.
  • Deprecated DefaultFormBuilder and I15dPanelBuilder in extras package.
  • They are now in the builder package.

Example

import net.ffxml.swtforms.builder.PanelBuilder;
import net.ffxml.swtforms.layout.CellConstraints;
import net.ffxml.swtforms.layout.FormLayout;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text;

public class SWTTest6 {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Display display = new Display();
		Shell shell = new Shell(display);

		createContents(shell);
		shell.pack();
		shell.setText("SWTTest6");
		shell.open();

		while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
			if (!display.readAndDispatch())
				display.sleep();
		}
	}

	protected static void createContents(Shell shell) {
		FormLayout layout = new FormLayout(
		  "r:max(50dlu;p), 3dlu, 70dlu:grow, 3dlu, r:max(50dlu;p), 3dlu, 70dlu",
		  "p, 3dlu, p, 3dlu, p, 3dlu, p, 3dlu, p, 3dlu, p");
		CellConstraints cc = new CellConstraints();
		PanelBuilder builder = new PanelBuilder(shell, layout);
		builder.setDefaultDialogBorder();

		builder.addSeparator("General", cc.xywh(1, 1, 7, 1));
		builder.addLabel("Company", cc.xy(1, 3));
		builder.add(new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER), cc.xywh(3, 3, 5, 1));
		builder.addLabel("Contact", cc.xy(1, 5));
		builder.add(new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER), cc.xywh(3, 5, 5, 1));

		builder.addSeparator("Propeller", cc.xywh(1, 7, 7, 1));
		builder.addLabel("PTI [kW]", cc.xy(1, 9));
		builder.add(new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER), cc.xy(3, 9));
		builder.addLabel("Power [kW]", cc.xy(5, 9));
		builder.add(new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER), cc.xy(7, 9));
		builder.addLabel("R [mm]", cc.xy(1, 11));
		builder.add(new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER), cc.xy(3, 11));
		builder.addLabel("D [mm]", cc.xy(5, 11));
		builder.add(new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER), cc.xy(7, 11));
	}
}