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I'm trying to design a Jframe to collect the scores for a round of golf. I have put about six panels on the frame, and I want them essentially to be in two columns. However, the GUI builder just "does it's own thing". I move and resize a panel, and suddenly the GUI builder moves all the panels around and totally destroys my formatting. While the GUI may be fine for a small data entry pane, for anything other than really simple it is totally useless. Can't the developers of the GUI designer have a look at Visual Basic, and do something half as good as that?
If you want to share your ideas/complain about the GUI builder then you should use the nbusers mailing list - you will have a larger audience ;-). See http://www.netbeans.org/community/lists/top.html for details. If you want to report a problem then, please, provide more information to track the problem down. It would be ideal to attach the corresponding .java and .form files and describe exact steps that lead to the problem. Thank you in advance.
I tried to upload the form, but wasn't originally able to. The problem I find with the designer is that when you have a lot of components, it seems unable to keep track of all the positioning. I need a data entry panel to capture golf scores. There are three jpanels at the top and bottom of the main frame for information of various sorts. Between these, I need to be able to enter the 18 scores, so I have 2 jpanels, each with 9 jtextfields for the score, and 18 jlabels for the hole number and the par rating. I can jut about get these panels set up, though the GUI does insist on re-arranging them. However, when I tray and layout all of the 8 panels, well the GUI just does it's own thing. I have redone the thing manually using standard Border, Flow, and GridBag layouts. I will attach these to the issue. Files attached will be EnterScoresOLD.java and EnterScoresOLD.form - these are designed using FreeDesign and are the faulty components EnterScores.java and EnterScores.form - these are designed using standard layouts and will show what I am trying to achieve.
Created attachment 29087 [details] For using traditional layouts
Created attachment 29088 [details] Java file using traditional layouts
Created attachment 29089 [details] Faulty form file
Created attachment 29090 [details] Faulty Java file
I was curious if it is really not possible to design a mentioned form in FreeDesign layout. If you are interested in, look at the attached form.
Created attachment 29182 [details] ScoreCard.java
Created attachment 29183 [details] ScoreCard.form
There is no specific problem reported in this issue. The reporter mentioned that he is not able to create some form in Free Design. Marek Grummich showed that it is possible to create such a form (thanks). I am sorry for the problem the reporter has with Free Design, but I am not able to help him unless his reports are more specific.