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Re: What do you think of my CropImage class

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Date	2016-07-22 10:21 -0700
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Subject	Re: What do you think of my CropImage class
From	Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com>

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On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 10:10:29 AM UTC-4, Nigel Wade wrote:
> How do you cope with a different display, or a different OS, with different fonts/font metrics, or a display with a different resolution and/or scaling factors? Presumably you have to manually calculate the size of every control, taking into account the insets/margins etc. then the containers, and so on up the hierarchy.

Different display?  The app assumes every display has at least 1024x600 resolution if that's what you mean.  Different OS?  We run Windows 8.1 and everything looks the same as it did on XP.  I believe it looks the same on a Mac, don't normally have to worry about that stuff for an in house app.  There are no different fonts.  I use one set of fonts for my app, with the font files embedded in the jar.  Yes size and positions are manual, haven't seen any scaling issues.

> > I tried using a non-null layout once and the only thing I could get to look right with a handful of controls at different sizes and positions was a GroupLayout, though it's a bit complicated to get right.  I've heard this is what NetBeans does.
> >
> 
> Gridbag and Border are the main layouts I use. There's pretty much nothing I've ever constructed in a GUI which couldn't be managed by a suitable combination of those two layouts. The key to any GUI is not to try to force every component into the same container, and then try to  micro-manage the layout. Instead use multiple containers, containers within containers, each using their own layout, until you get the desired effect.

That would be the only alternative I could see, which sounds similar to what the GroupLayout does, if you could use a standard simpler layout like GridLayout and fill it with panels that have their own layouts if you can just divide and subdivide the whole screen until you get there.

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What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-20 09:15 +0200
  Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-20 11:12 +0200
  Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-20 10:02 -0700
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-20 21:14 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 12:50 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:11 +0200
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 14:19 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Qu0ll <qu0ll64@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 05:53 +1000
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-20 13:46 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 13:59 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-20 15:40 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:27 +0200
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 05:17 -0700
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 17:43 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 08:59 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 19:10 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-23 21:47 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 04:51 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-25 15:01 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-25 21:06 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-25 21:09 -0400
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-21 15:44 +0100
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 17:46 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:25 +0200
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 14:16 +0200
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:05 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 13:23 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-21 07:58 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 11:13 -0400
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 18:12 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 17:49 +0200
  Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 11:58 +0200
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 09:35 -0400
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 09:03 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 12:39 -0400
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 18:07 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-21 17:23 +0100
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 12:56 -0400
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 19:03 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 10:25 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 14:24 -0400
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 11:54 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 20:25 +0200
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 15:37 -0400
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-21 21:30 +0000
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 23:52 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 20:35 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-22 04:21 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 22:44 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-22 10:27 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-22 10:47 +0000
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 05:16 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-22 15:10 +0100
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-22 07:47 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 10:21 -0700
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-21 08:30 -0700
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 18:19 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 10:18 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 20:12 +0200

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