What’s the equivalent of Swing’s GridBagLayout in ...

# compose-desktop

[natpryce]

What’s the equivalent of Swing’s GridBagLayout in Jetpack Compose Desktop? In particular I want columns to be sized to fit components in that column.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I hope none 🙂 Totally

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I wouldn’t mind if somebody brings something a bit more modern like FormLayout or MigLayout over

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLaxbFKAcc▾

[natpryce]

I don’t care about the precise class :-) However, I’m surprised by how hard it is to layout my components in a grid. All example code I’ve found involves either hard-coding the sizes of the columns or calculating the size myself.

[orangy]

I recently implemented a simple Table component, like, in few hours, and most time spent drawing lines between cells and properly measuring them, depending on the line width and such 🙂 Unfortunately, I didn’t yet open source it, because I don’t have proper context to do it. Considering contributing to https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/components, or maybe starting own project with components – I have some useful stuff to share

[orangy]

Usage would be something like this:

Table(…) {
   row {
     cell { … }
     cell { … }
   }
   row {
     cell { … }
     cell { … }
   }
}

[natpryce]

The design of the existing LazyVerticalGrid almost makes this possible, but the grid does not pass the content items to the strategy that computes the column sizes.

[natpryce]

So close, yet so far 🙁

[orangy]

My table is not lazy at all, because, how would you do it?

[natpryce]

That is a v good point