MiG Layout Change Log

Release 2.4.1

• Changed so that rows/columns with preferred size set less than the minimum size has its preferred size set to the minimum size.

Release 2.4

• Added the LayoutCallback abstract class that can be extended to dynamically change/affect the size and position of component within the layout cycle.
• Added new demo that shows some of the functionality of the LayoutCallback.
• Renamed isBoundsIsGrid() to isBoundsInGrid() in CC.
• Made "external" also affect the minimum/preferred size of the container.
• Fixed a bug with docking components in certain combinations.

Release 2.3

• Speed improvement in Swing version.
• Massive speed improvement for the SWT version. In nested layouts the speed improvent is approx (max nesting level) exp 7! The nesting slowdown was due to a bug. Thanks Henning.

Release 2.2.6

• Bugfix: If only one button in a "button" tagged cell (with target platform reordering) was used an OK button would be left instead of right aligned.
• Bugfix: When using component constraint "span" without column count (which means to the end of the row) together with "dock east" the spanned cell/component was laid out over/under the docked component. This also happened when using "nogrid" row/layout constraint with the "dock east" constraint.

Release 2.2.5

• Bugfix: When a component's name contained a period (.) the Grid class threw a NPE in some cases.

Release 2.2.4

• Fixed a problem with unstable (jumping) right corners when old-type gap, e.g "gap unrelated:inf" was used.
• Added size hints for the "other" dimension than the asked for. This is supported in SWT but not Swing. Make sure you set the minimum size (e.g. "wmin 100") though.
• Fixed a bug in the SWT Demo that threw an exception when resizing the main window. (If anyone can understand why there's a 0.5 sec lag when selecting a new element from the west list until the panel is shown, plese contact me).
• Fixed an exception in the SWTDemo/Docking that occurs since 2.2.2
• Added option to install an InCellGapProvider on PlatformDefaults. It can dynamically, for instance depending on component type, set default gaps between components within the same cell.

Release 2.2.3

• Improved row/column sizing when a spanning component is pushing rows/colums apart becase is has a larger minimum/preferred size. Now works with "push"ing components and the last row/column will be resized if no specific "grow" row/column exist.

Release 2.2.2

• Fixed a NPE when using identical button tags.

Release 2.2.1

• Fixed a bug that added a gap before and after buttons automatic button handling cells. Thanks Ingo Kegel from ej-technologies.
• Fixed a bug that threw an IndexOutOfBounds in some cases.
• Fixed a bug regarding pushing gaps before first and after last component in a cell.
• Exposed the UnitValue class to "public" so that they are more easily recreated. This is for the automatic layout creators that is currently using MiG Layout.
• Added another constructor that makes sense now that grid and row constaints are not needed as often.
• Added a lot of missing JavaDoc for the SWT version of MiG Layout.
• Fixed a bug where gaps for rows/columns was sligtly off if specified explicitly but less than actuall rows/column count.
• Modified the design time property of LayoutUtil to default to Beans.isDesignTime() if the LayoutUtil.setDesignTime() never been called. This is so that XML persistence will work by default in IDEs.

Release 2.2

• Gap handing has been simplified and made much more flexible through the introduction of the "push" addition to a gap size. Push (eg "gap push", "gap 10:10:100:push" or "gap unrel!:push") means that the gap should be greedy and get any extra space that is available. It will thus push components within a cell and/or rows/columns away in a similar way as alignment, but with greater flexibility. "push" in pre v2.2 worked by setting a preferred value to a high value but that did not work for insatnce if the container was in a scroll pane. Gap pushes for components in a cell will not force the cell bigger, however push gaps for columns/rows will.
• The number of times that a grid's rows/columns need to be specified explicitly just to make it "grow" has been reduced. First, if one uses "fill" on the layout constraints will make the components "grow weight" will now migrate to the column/row it is in, unless that has been set explicitly on any row/column. Also, the introduction of the "push" keyword for components will make allow a row/column "grow" even if "fill" has not been set on the layout constraints, just by adding a "push(x/y) [weight]" keyword to the component constraints.
• IDEUtil did not produce correct API code for components spanning both rows and columns.
• Minor speed improvements.

Release 2.1.5

• Changed so that max size set will take precendece over minimum and preferred. Rationale being that max is always explicitly set but minimum size is usually implicit.
• Some speed improvements.
• NullPointerException in SWT when using "debug" and the Composite's parent is the Dispaly. Thanks Johan Kannala.
• 1.5 dependency in the SWT 1.4-only version caused a NoSuchMethodException when using the "debug" keyword. Thanks Johan Kannala.
• In SWT the actual current visibility (compare Swing's isShowing) was used rather than the visibility flag (isVisible vs getVisible) when interpreting hidemode. Thanks Johan Kannala.

Release 2.1.4

• Again thanks Karl Tauber from JFormDesigner for the following fixes:
• Made some code improvements for speed and memory footprint.
• Changed the API for design time so that it can be set per container and not just globally.
• Fixed a leftToRight lookup bug and moved if from the component to container interface.
• Changed to a more consistent alignment if multiple alignments are set on a row/column.
• Fixed a bug where "growy" wasn't adhered to if the row had default "baseline" alignment.
• Documentation for "gap" had the arguments wrong.
• Alignment and "fill" are now picked up from the first row/column also if the component is spanning multiple cells.

Release 2.1.3

• Thanks Karl Tauber from JFormDesigner for the following fixes:
• Fixed a bug when there were empty column/row constrains and absolute cell references.
• Made it possible to use "button" size for column sizes as well and not only for component sizes.
• Some IDEUtil code formatting fixes and made IDEUtil Java 1.4 compatible.

Release 2.1.2

• Fixed bugs in Swing Demo and added "use" information for JavaDoc. Thanks Karl Tauber from JFormDesigner

Release 2.1.1

• Fixed a bug that made align keywords (e.g. "top") in the LayoutConstraint not work without the "align" keyword, which it should according to the documentation.

Release 2.1

• Improved the support for "x", "y", "x2" and "y2" absolute positioning/corrections. Thanks Ingo Kegel from ej-technologies.
• Fixed: Preferred size of container is sometimes not correct when using absolute postions.

Release 2.0.7

• Added debug outline paint for the top container as well. Thanks Kuznetsov Alexey.

Release 2.0.6

• Fixed: Alignment using API was not working for the LC (LayoutConstraint).

Release 2.0.5

• Fixed: Java 1.5 dependency removed in 1.4 version.

Release 2.0.4

• Fixed: Documentation discrepency for grow priority. (Thanks Richard West, Advanced Micro Devices)
• Fixed: Setting a specific span value did not wrap to next line if last component. (Thanks Richard West, Advanced Micro Devices)

Release 2.0.3

• Fixed: CC.align("right") did not work.

Release 2.0.2

• IDEUtil enhancements and big fixes.
• Fixed a "Widget already disposed" problem in the SWT version.
• Added "align label" that aligns labels according to platform. Currently right aligned on Mac OS X and left aligned on all other platforms.

Release 2.0.1

• Added so that "cell" can be used to specify spanning as well. E.g. "cell 1 1 2 2" will put the component in column 1 and row 1 spanning 2 columns and 2 rows.

Release 2.0

• Added building of all types of constraints via API. This makes code such as new XxxConsr().fill().gap("10px").size("100"); possible.
• Added optional IDEUtil class that can produce both API-type source code and constraints Strings from all types of constraints. This helps the IDE creators to add support for MiG Layout.
• Added a JSE 1.5 version that has varargs for the column/row indexes in the constraints API.
• Added "push" keyword for row/column size that means that the column/row will take all space that is left.
• Added support for empty rows/columns that can be used as gaps.
• Added better docking behavior.
• Numerous Bugs fixed.

Release 1.11

• Fixed revalidation bug.
• Bug fixes.

Release 1.1

• Improved performance a lot.
• Improved gap handling further.
• Fixed up sime API.
• Fixed a few minor bugs.

Release 1.02

• Fixed a bug in the alignement for right-to-left locales.
• Fixed so that the debug painting will always show. Sometimes the Frame needed to be revalidated manually.
• Fixed a bug where a docking component to the west or north was making bugging the column constraints.
• Added support for setting different automatic gaps between different component types.
• Added component type property to ComponentWrapper interface.
• Fixed a few minor bugs.
• Made split cells use the automatic gaps.
• Added better gap handling in many places.

Release 1.01

• Fixed Debug Rectangle placement when using Border with Insets.
• Fixed a bug that made "gap" only set the left gap if used with multiple arguments.
• Fixed a leak in the LinkHandler.
• Fixed a handle leak in the SWT Component Wrapper.
• Made all code, including the demo application, 1.4+ compliant.
• Added keyword "hidemode" which can set how components should behave if visibility is set to false.

Release 1.0

• Initial Release.