Michael Urban wrote “One of the biggest frustrations with GUI design in Java is struggling with layout managers to get complex forms to look good. However, that will all soon be a thing of the past. ”
“…Think he is using absolute positioning? He’s not. That’s a new feature called Matisse. What is so magic about it? Matisse lets you design your form as if you were using absolute positioning. You simply drag your components to where you want them and set them to the size you want by dragging. NetBeans takes care of figuring out what layout managers are needed, and of writing all of the code for you to make your form look the way you design it using ‘Drag, drop, and stretch’…”
See example Flash demo and get more info on the Matisse GUI Designer at Javalobby at the link below.
* Coming Soon: Magic in NetBeans Form Designer. | Javalobby.org
Also see:
* Project Matisse is coming! | Netbeans.org