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SimpleSwingForm

SimpleSwingForm is a component designed to the simplification of building the Swing forms.

• it uses GridBagLayout to layout the components
• it layouts components automatically, each component on the new row, but you can change this behavior by overriding methods customizeLabelConstraints(GridBagConstraints, JLabel) and customizeComponentConstraints(GridBagConstraints, JComponent)
• the most simple is building of the two-columns form, where are labels in the first column
• component offers a lot of the showDialog(...) methods to show this form in a dialog
• if you subclasses this component, you can use standard OK action and serve it in okActionPerformed() method without writting any action

Here is a simple example of SimpleSwingForm usage:

	SimpleSwingForm form = new SimpleSwingForm ();
	form.addLabeledComponent ("Label 1", form.createTextField ());
	form.addLabeledComponent ("Label 2", new JTextArea ());
	Action okAction = new MyOkAction (); // you must do something on OK
	form.showDialog ("My form", okAction, form.createStandardCancelAction ());

This builds on the 5 lines of code a two-rows form with labels "Label 1" and "Label 2" in the first column and components text field and text area in the second. Then is the form displayed in a dialog.