AnchorLayout support

[steph]

I just discovered the WindowBuilder tool, and it's really great.

I appreciate the anchorlayout Cloudgarden provided by, and I wanted to know if it was possible to use it with WindowBuilder.
I can add an entry to the "Layouts" category, but I can't edit any component into an anchorlayout container by drag and drop the corner of the component into the "Design" mode as it's possible with Jigloo.

Does anyone know a solution?

Thanks

[Eric Clayberg]

What does AnchorLayout do that the other standard layout managers don't do?

Adding support for any layout manager is a very complex process since it requires a great deal of custom work in every case.

While we have no plans to support AnchorLayout, Swing Designer itself is in the process of going open source through Eclipse.org. Once that happens, anyone would be able to add this support themselves as long as they learn the design time API.

[steph]

What does AnchorLayout do that the other standard layout managers don't do?

The AnchorLayout provides a powerful layout allowing to put a component anywhere and to specify how to resize it on each of the 4 direction(top, right, bottom, left) when the parent container is resized, like 4 anchors.
Each anchor specifies the default distance to his border, and how to react (fixed distance, proportional to the new size, no reaction).
Each container's component may have a different resizing behavior.

Adding support for any layout manager is a very complex process since it requires a great deal of custom work in every case.

While we have no plans to support AnchorLayout, Swing Designer itself is in the process of going open source through Eclipse.org. Once that happens, anyone would be able to add this support themselves as long as they learn the design time API.

Ok, I understand. Thanks for your quick response.

[Eric Clayberg]

The AnchorLayout provides a powerful layout allowing to put a component anywhere and to specify how to resize it on each of the 4 direction(top, right, bottom, left) when the parent container is resized, like 4 anchors.

That sounds like what you get with either GroupLayout or SpringLayout.