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The JGoodies Swing Suite provides components and solutions that complement Swing to solve common user interface tasks. It advocates a UI production process that lets you save time and money while ensuring consistent and elegant design.

The JGoodies Swing Suite provides components and solutions that complement Swing to solve common user interface tasks. It advocates a UI production process that lets you save time and money while ensuring consistent and elegant design. More info at http://www.jgoodies.com/products/swing-suite/ .

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Is UI data binding in Java more trouble than it is worth?

I've spent some time recently learning and attempting to use various Java data-binding tools such as JGoodies, GlazedLists, JSR-295, etc. The problems that I've been trying to solve are not that difficult, however the amount of code I've had to…
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How to adjust JTable columns to fit the longest content in column cells

I'm using answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/5820366 and http://tips4java.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/table-column-adjuster/ and it works, but frequently columns' sizes are too wide or too narrow. No matter filling my table with HTML or text. Using…
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Is JGoodies a good framework to use?

I've been looking into JGoodies for the last two hours and i don't seem to find a lot of good documentation on the subject. Not even on the JGoodies website. So it made me wondering of JGoodies is a good framework to use to model your gui? Is there…
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How to set the JGoodies Look and Feel?

I added the jgoodies-looks-2.5.3.jar to my buildpath and started it with public static void main(String[] args) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { try { …
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Essential Swing libraries? JGoodies, JFreeChart

The wheel is invented over and over again - at least it seems so when looking at any average Swing GUI project. In many areas there are one or two very well known libraries for things not directly addressed by the standard class library, e.g.…
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Get preferred size of multi-line flowlayout

I can't figure out a way to resize some components in a swing GUI. Some custom labels are being added to a FlowLayout which doesn't behave how they should when resizing the dialog. The panel is being built using the jgoodies forms framework. If…
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What happened to the JGoodies binding tutorial code?

I want to learn how to use JGoodies binding (since beans binding seems dead in the water, and so does its fork). the JGoosides binding docs refer to the tutorial source code, but this code is not available in the latest (2.5) distribution. After…
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Align Swing Components across Panels

We have a JPanel which contains multiple JPanels which contain JComponents (let's say JLabels and JTextboxes) Inside each of the internal JPanels we use JGoodies Layout in order to ensure proper alignment of all Labels. But of course we would like…
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jgoodies binding: using a JTextField with a formatted number?

I am trying to bind a JTextField to a bean's field that is a double using JGoodies Binding: JTextField myJTextField = ... BeanAdapter adapter =…
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Swing desktop-development

I have a very general question regarding java desktop-gui-applications. My Experience: In the last years i have developed a number of desktop-applications, some using Swing alone, some Spring-RCP (which was great, still i can't just bet on a…
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Change the color of a JButton in JGoodies WindowsLookAndFeel

How do I change the color of a JButton if I am using JGoodies WindowsLookAndFeel? After changing the color the button should still have some visual indication when it is clicked; the color gradient and click animation do not have to be the same as…
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How to bind booleans in JTable with JGoodies

I have seven boolean values in a column of a JTable that I want to bind to my bean. How do I bind them? All the JTable binding examples out there focus on binding the table selection, but I only care about what the values of those booleans are.
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Change FormLayout alignment at runtime

Is there a way using JGoodies FormLayout to change the alignment of a component once it has been set? for example, CellConstraints cc = new CellCosntraints(); panel.add(component,cc.xy(1,1,CellConstraints.DEFAULT,CellConstraints.FILL)); If I want…
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JGoodies for Android?

I looking for an UI plugin library for Android like what JGoodies is to Swing. It should be configurable with or without the library existing (meaning, if the library exists, it renders the UI component specific to library, otherwise use the default…
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JTable in JScrollpane adjust height of the displayed component

I have a jtable within a jscrollpane. I use the jgoodies Form Layout and have put the scrollpane in a row that is set to "pref". This is how the table looks like right now: I am using swingx JXTable by the way and have set the visibleRowCount to 2.…
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