How to use MigLayout?

java miglayout layout-manager
guerda picture guerda · Dec 9, 2008 · Viewed 33.9k times · Source

I read some information about Java layout managers and the recommendation was MigLayout. My problem is, that I didn't found any tutorial or easy step-by-step documentation.

So I want to know how this all works, but I don't know how.

Hope, it's not to trivial.

Thanks in advance, guerda

Answer

PhiLho picture PhiLho · Dec 9, 2008

Bombe is right... and wrong. I find this whitepaper tends to show off all great features of MiGLayout, entering in nitty gritty details that we would rarely, if ever, use... The paper hesitates between being a tutorial and a reference.

Now, the provided demo applications (at MiG Layout main page and MiG Java Components page) are very well made: you can see the components and how they move/are resized, and you can take a look at the source code used to do this layout, which is a precious source of concrete implementation. Precious because I haven't found many open source projects actually using this layout (perhaps I just wasn't searching properly).

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