SpringLayout and coverting Snapped contraints to absolute

[dbh]

Hello!

I have most of my GUI for an application implemented in SpringLayout. My GUI expert doing the layout and touch-up vastly prefers all of the components to use absolute positions and coordinates, rather than each component snapped to other components.

Is there a way to un-snap all of the components and convert them to absolute positioning, in batch / bulk, while staying within SwingLayout?

The problem with switching to null layout and thend switching back to Spring Layout is that it destroys any code that was dependent on referencing a SwingLayout object.

[Eric Clayberg]

Is there a way to un-snap all of the components and convert them to absolute positioning, in batch / bulk, while staying within SwingLayout?

You can switch to null layout and then back to SpringLayout or drop another SpringLayout instance on the window.

The problem with switching to null layout and thend switching back to Spring Layout is that it destroys any code that was dependent on referencing a SwingLayout object.

There shouldn't be any other code that references the SpringLayout other than the constraint code generated by Designer.

If you do have other code referencing the springLayout object, you should comment out that code while doing the conversion.