Description

JGoodies Forms is one of Swing's most well known 3rd party libraries. It provides a very powerful grid-based layout: FormLayout.

Installation

The current version of griffon-jgoodies-forms-plugin is 0.4

To install just issue the following command

Usage

The following nodes will become available on a View script upon installing this plugin

Node	Property	Type	Default	Required	Bindable	Notes
formLayout [FormLayout]	columns	ColumnSpec[]				either set a value for this property or set a value for the node
	rows	RowSpec[]				either set a value for this property or set a value for the node
cc [CellConstraints]	x	int	1
	y	int	1
	w	int	1
	y	int	1
	halign	String				must define a value for valign too
	valign	String				must define a value for halign too
	align	String				combined halign/valign
form [JPanel]	layout	FormLayout				either set a value for this property or set a value for the node
	target	JPanel				either set a value for this property or set a value for the node
	resourceBundle	ResourceBundle

Nodes and properties accept different types according to the following rules

formLayout node value may be any of

• a FormLayout instance
• a String/GString - only columnSpec will be defined
• a String[] - element[0] will be columnSpec, element[1] will be rowSpec
• a List - element[0] will be columnSpec, element[1] will be rowSpec

formLayout.columns: may be any of

• ColumnSpec[]
• String/GString
• List - elements will be joined with ","

formLayout.rows: may be any of

• RowSpec[]
• String/GString
• List - elements will be joined with ","

form node value may be any of

• a JPanel instance - must define a value for layout:
• a FormLayout instance - will use default JPanel unless target: is defined
• a String/GString - columnSpec will be used only. Will use default JPanel unless target: is defined
• a String[] - element[0] will be columnSpec, element[1] will be rowSpec. Will use default JPanel unless target: is defined
• a List - element[0] will be columnSpec, element[1] will be rowSpec. Will use default JPanel unless target: is defined

form.layout: may be any of

• a FormLayout instance
• a String/GString - only columnSpec will be defined
• a String[] - element[0] will be columnSpec, element[1] will be rowSpec
• a List - element[0] will be columnSpec, element[1] will be rowSpec

Additionally, you may call any method of DefualtFormBuilder inside form's child closure. Here is an example

That code produces the following screen

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