MiGLayout DSL mode

[Andrei.Pozolotin]

by default, MIG support in WB uses "text language";

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JPanel panel = new JPanel(new MigLayout());
    panel.add(firstNameLabel);
    panel.add(firstNameTextField);
    panel.add(lastNameLabel,       "gap unrelated");
    panel.add(lastNameTextField,   "wrap");
    panel.add(addressLabel);
    panel.add(addressTextField,    "span, grow");

is there any way to switch WB into DSL mode (method chaining):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language:

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panel.add(comp, new CC().grow().width("20px")) // Component constraint


[Andrei.Pozolotin]

when I try to run the form below in WB, I am not able to select some components;
such as new JLabel("General"); am I missing something obvious again?

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package test;

import java.awt.EventQueue;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JSeparator;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;

import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;

public class TestFrameMig2 extends JFrame {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    TestFrameMig2 frame = new TestFrameMig2();
                    frame.setVisible(true);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
    }

    private JPanel p;

    public TestFrameMig2() {
        initGUI();
    }

    private void initGUI() {

        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setBounds(100, 100, 450, 300);

        p = new JPanel(new MigLayout("", "[right]"));
        p.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));

        p.add(new JLabel("General"), "split, span, gaptop 10");
        p.add(new JSeparator(), "growx, wrap, gaptop 10");

        p.add(new JLabel("Company"), "gap 10");
        p.add(new JTextField(""), "span, growx");
        p.add(new JLabel("Contact"), "gap 10");
        p.add(new JTextField(""), "span, growx, wrap");

        p.add(new JLabel("Propeller"), "split, span, gaptop 10");
        p.add(new JSeparator(), "growx, wrap, gaptop 10");

        p.add(new JLabel("PTI/kW"), "gap 10");
        p.add(new JTextField(10), "");
        p.add(new JLabel("Power/kW"), "gap 10");
        p.add(new JTextField(10), "wrap");
        p.add(new JLabel("R/mm"), "gap 10");
        p.add(new JTextField(10), "wrap");
        p.add(new JLabel("D/mm"), "gap 10");
        p.add(new JTextField(10));

        add(p);

    }

}


[Andrei.Pozolotin]

trying to add anything to the form above kills the layout;
it seems WB is OK only with some subset of MIG layout keywords?

[Andrei.Pozolotin]

Eric:

thanks for moving this into separate thread;

I basically tried to edit in WB several examples that come with MIG:
http://www.migcalendar.com/miglayout/swingdemoapp.jnlp

so far WB breaks them all;

Andrei

[Eric Clayberg]

Give this a try using the latest WindowBuilder build...

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools ... -beta.html

by default, MIG support in WB uses "text language";
is there any way to switch WB into DSL mode (method chaining)

WB should be able to parse and render code using DSL mode, but it will only generate code using MiG text/cell mode.

when I try to run the form below in WB, I am not able to select some components;
such as new JLabel("General"); am I missing something obvious again?

This was caused by a bug in MiGLayout triggered by using the "span" keyword.

We have added a work around in the latest build that will allow all of these components to be selectable.

trying to add anything to the form above kills the layout;
it seems WB is OK only with some subset of MIG layout keywords?

This was caused by the same MiG bug described above and should be addressed by the same work around.

I basically tried to edit in WB several examples that come with MIG:
http://www.migcalendar.com/miglayout/swingdemoapp.jnlp
so far WB breaks them all;

Try them again. Any that were broken because of the bug with "span" should now work.