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Re: Good design and pract

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On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:34:33 -0800 (PST), jasoncorbett@gmail.com wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

> I dislike most gui code I've seen (not that much) because
>it appears to me to be a complete mess

When I first saw GUI code, for a prototype MacIntosh on the Lisa, I
said, "You have got to be kidding.  Nobody is going to go to all this
fuss for a simple app.  I was wrong."

It has not improved that much. 

Some things you can do.  

1. Subclass components to put in all your standard tweakings. That way
you can change your "style" in one place and reduce the clutter.  We
need something the equivalent of CSS style sheets for Java GUIs to
hide the details of layout and look.  That goes much further than just
subclassing.

2. use nested panels.

3. separate the allocation and field attributes from the layout.  Keep
business logic separate from both.

4. make great use of the "extract constant" feature to parameterise
your code with named constants.  It is a lot easier to maintain a
named constant that dig in the code for multiple places to change
something.

5. keep your attribute setting methods is a standard order.
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Good design and practice "jasoncorbett" <jasoncorbett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:42 +0000
  Re: Good design and pract "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:42 +0000
  Re: Good design and pract "Karsten Lentzsch" <karsten.lentzsch@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:42 +0000

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