On 15 August 2011 10:52, Michael Schnell wrote: > > What is the main difference between the fpGUI designer and MiGLayout ?
Like day and night. fpGUI's UI Designer is similar to Delphi or Lazarus's Form designers. Drop components, set some properties etc. The only difference there is that fpGUI's UI designer generates pascal code, and the other two generates some form object output separate from the code unit. The best way to see what MiGLayout can do, is to download the demo jar file which has a lot of examples built-in, then play around with those examples. You can even right-click on each example to do "live editing", or enable the debug-mode to see how the layout manager does it's calculation and layout. There was also a nice UI competition between layout managers. A UI Form was designed, and people could submit how to recreate that form using various layout managers available. MiGLayout had very little code compared to most alternatives, and the result was often more flexible too. If you read the MiGLayout white paper, you will learn some more of the advanced features which are mind blowing! The author thought of everything. Automatically managed button orders per platform (OK, Cancel vs Cancel,OK etc), automatic style defaults per platform (border sizes around components, default sizes of buttons etc), layouts can be described in any units like pixels, mm, cm, inchs, dpi independent, alignment or anchoring or resizing can be described really simple or even by using complex expressions. I can go on and on, but rather just download the demo and see for yourself. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
