How to - Custom Container with default Layout

[sommermartin]

How would one create and use a custom container that specifies a particular LayoutManager with specific settings.

Specifically I am thinking of extending JPanel and setting a Form LayoutManager with specific columns and rows.

thank you much,

Martin

[Eric Clayberg]

How would one create and use a custom container that specifies a particular LayoutManager with specific settings.

Create a JPanel subclass and assign a layout manager to it. That layout will then be used if the panel is used in another window. This works for any simple Swing layout manager that does not have any complex internal state associated with it

Specifically I am thinking of extending JPanel and setting a Form LayoutManager with specific columns and rows.

This will not work for the JGoodies FormLayout. That layout is too complex and has too much local state info associate with it which is not visible to the outer window.

You can assign a FormLayout to a custom panel, but you need to do it in the context in which it is being used (e.g., in the same scope in which the widgets will be added).

[sommermartin]

Eric,

thank you very much.

Would it be possible to achieve it using creating a jvt for a custom panel (is it possible)?

Or would I be better off creating an eclipse pluggin that creates a wizard flow?

thank you,

Martin

[Eric Clayberg]

Would it be possible to achieve it using creating a jvt for a custom panel (is it possible)?

I don't see how that would make any difference. The only important thing here is that the layout must be created/defined in the same scope in which the widgets will be added.

Or would I be better off creating an eclipse pluggin that creates a wizard flow?

I'm not even sure what you mean here.