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Re: What do you think of my CropImage class

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On 22/07/16 13:16, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 10:44:50 PM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>       "Good," I think.  Letting layout managers do their thing relieves
>> you of worries like "How much room should I leave for borders?" and
>> "Will the amount of border-room be different on other devices or other
>> look-and-feel settings?"
>>
>>       YMMV, but speaking for myself: I've used null layout only with
>> panels I treat as "canvases" or "drawing surfaces," panels that display
>> images or vector drawings or other "painted" things as opposed to
>> "contained components."  I do not recall ever using a null layout on
>> a top-level container.
>
> I normally use a null layout and give everything an absolute size and position, which seems the easiest thing to do when you have a minimum window size to work with and you don't need resize-able controls.
>

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.


> 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.

I do nearly everything in NetBeans/Matisse, only tweaking things by hand where necessary. These are tools which make my life much easier/simpler, so I use them.
Even on the rare occasions where I decide I need to code a GUI by hand I generally run a mock-up in Matisse to get the basic layout, and then copy the components and layout configuration into my custom GUI. It's just so much easier, and quicker, to use NetBeans/Matisse to generate a GUI, and all the associated boiler-plate.

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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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