Re: Matisse with XML?

--- Christian Hessenbruch <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I hope that some of the developers behind Matisse is
> on this mailinglist, cause I've got a suggestion,
> and im not sure where to send it?
> 
> What I think would be *really* cool, where if
> Matisse offered the possiblity to export the
> generated layout to XML, and also provided a parser
> to turn the XML back into a layout.
> 
> To apply the layout on my application I would have
> to use 'GroupLayoutParser' that would parse the XML
> and ask my application for the components using some
> interface.
> 
> My application would implement something like:
> 
> Interface GroupLayoutComponentSupplier {
>   public Component getComponent(String name);
> }
> 
> And to populate the GUI I would call something like:
> 
> File xmlfile = new File(mylayout.xml);
> JPanel panel =
> GroupLayoutParser.doLayoutPanel(xmlfile, this); //
> this instanceof GroupLayoutComponentSupplier
> 
> That way I would get rid of all the autogenerated
> layout code, and be able to reuse a layout. Maybe I
> could even allow the users of the application to
> rearrange the gui as it no longer affects the code
> (as long as components are not added).
> 
> /Christian
> 

I think java.beans.XMLEncoder may already do what you
want to do.  It will take a panel or frame and write
it out to XML in it's format and then you can
reinstate it later.  It's a way to long term serialize
beans and swing objects.

Wade