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MiG Layout is a free and open-source layout manager for Java Swing, SWT, JavaFX2, Fantom, Qt and other GUI toolkits.

MiG Layout is a free and open-source layout manager for many GUI toolkits. Its aim is to allow you to create advanced GUI layouts that are maintainable and flexible.

http://www.miglayout.com/

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How to use MigLayout?

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…
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Which layout can do this?

I'm trying to layout some JLabels in my application as shown in this example: I always have this JLabel at the middle and the number of the others JLabels is variable it can go from 1 to 30. I have tried Grid layout by choosing a good number of…
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Java Vertical Layout?

I need to position a JLabel over some JButtons, vertically, like a game menu. They should all be centered. I already downloaded MigLayout, but I'm not sure how to use that, so I just want a way to position my components vertically and centered,…
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Java: MiGLayout: How to use `hidemode`?

I am starting out using MiGLayout for my GUI design, and one of the feature I would need is to show/hide certain components based on the state of other components. I was going to code this myself, when I noticed that one of the Component Constraints…
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How to center a component on a row containing multiple components with MiGLayout

I started using MiGLayout about a month and half ago and everything is simple and works great. There's only one issue I still have that I haven't been able to fix. Let's say I want to have a row that has two buttons on the right-most side and a…
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JScrollpane needs to shrink its width

I have a JScrollpane that has a JPanel on the inside (and the panel contains some JLabels). I want resizing the scroll pane to actually change its size (possibly below the preferred size of the inner components), not just the size of the…
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Is MiGLayout going to be included in Java 7?

All I could find so far is this (open) Sun bug/RFE entry with 426 506 votes: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6530906 It's in third place in the list of RFEs. Tons of people have stated that it will be included in Java 7...but does anyone have…
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MigLayout JTextArea is not shrinking when used with linewrap=true

If I use a JTextArea with MigLayout like this: MigLayout thisLayout = new MigLayout("", "[][grow]", "[]20[]"); this.setLayout(thisLayout); { jLabel1 = new JLabel(); this.add(jLabel1, "cell 0 0"); jLabel1.setText("jLabel1"); } { jTextArea1…
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How to ... with MigLayout

I am trying to create a layout that will looking like: +---+--------+---+ | | | | | | | | +---+ +---+ | | | | | | | | +---+--------+---+ Central cell should be twice as wide as other. I am trying…
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Painting over the top of components in Swing?

I have a JPanel added to a JViewport, and the panel has several other panels added to it. I'm trying to implement a dragging selection, where you can select more than one component by dragging the mouse. The only problem I'm facing is that the…
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Swing - how to mix JTextField and JTextAreas and have same visual appearance?

I am using miglayout to create a form in which there are JTextFields (short input answers) as well as JTextAreas (Longer answers). The problem is twofold. The border placed around a Scrollpane wrapped text area does not match that of a Text…
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What is the difference between push, grow, and fill in MigLayout?

I see that grow and push accept an optional weighting parameter, but apart from that: what is the real difference between grow, fill, and push? The documentation isn't very clear about that.
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miglayout: can't get right-alignment to work

Something's not right here. I'm trying to get the rightmost button (labeled "help" in the example below) to be right-aligned to the JFrame, and the huge buttons to have their width tied to the JFrame but be at least 180px each. I got the huge button…
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MigLayout push VS grow

What is the difference between these two constraints? From documentation: PUSH - makes the row and/or column that the component is residing in grow with "weight" GROW - Sets how keen the component should be to grow in relation to other component in…
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MigLayout usage

A question for those familiar with MigLayout sorry couldn't think of a more appropriate name for the question... I'm trying to create a layout that will end up looking like the following: +---------+---------+ | btn1 | btn2 …
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