Re: Pfew! I am glad .NET exists... confessions of a MS immigrant.

~~~ .NET Ed ~~~ <tiredofspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> I cannot believe that something as basic as an absolute layout (X,Y
> positions for the components) is still not native!

Actually, I believe you can use absolute layout in Java reasonably
easily. However, it's almost never a good idea. What *I* find hard to
believe is that Windows Forms doesn't have layout managers which are as
good as Java's. (It will with Avalon, but that's a way off.)

As for IDEs - yes, the Java GUI designers are behind VS's designers.
Personally, I find that a very small price to pay for the massive
development speed increase that Eclipse gives me whenever I'm doing
something other than UIs. (Heck, even when I'm doing UIs I tend to
avoid designers other than for prototyping.) VS.NET (even 2005) is
still a long way behind Eclipse when it comes to raw code editing.

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