Using JGoodies FormLayout:
I have a Panel that contains a Salutation, a name and a forename. Let's call it NamePanel I now want to build another Panel that contains the first Panel and adds a few more rows. Let's call it NamedAddressPanel The layout of NamePanel looks like this:
Salutation | textfield
Name | textfield
ForeName | textfield
So the bigger Panel builds itself by putting the small NamePanel in it and puts a few more rows below it. So it builds itself like this:
NamePanel
Street | textfield
Streetnumber | textfield
Now the problematic result of this looks like this:
Salutation | textfield
Name | textfield
ForeName | textfield
Street | textfield
Streetnumber | textfield
I want it to look like this:
Salutation | textfield
Name | textfield
ForeName | textfield
Street | textfield
Streetnumber | textfield
The labels in the NamePanel will have a different width than the ones added below it in the NamedAddressPanel. They won't align with each other correctly because the NamePanel and the NamedAddressPanel use 2 different instances of FormLayout.
My only solution to this currently is to use a fix width for the label column that is the same in all Panels. But that obviously breaks pretty easy when I add a label text that happens to be too long.
The single other way I can think of is to somehow use the same Layout, but I want to split up Panels like this to make them reusable. I.e. I first had this as a single Panel but split it up because I need the NamePanel itself in one more place.
Can I somehow tell a FormLayout to negotiate a column width with another FormLayout? Basically like setColumGroups but with multiple FormLayouts?
