Summary	TableLayout is a powerful layout manager
Categories	None
License	*Other*
Owner(s)	clearthought

TableLayout

Welcome to the TableLayout project homepage!

TableLayout is a totally free layout manager designed to make creating user interfaces fast and easy. It can do anything GridBagLayout can do and much, much more. Yet it is remarkably simple and easy to use.

TableLayout uses concepts that everyone is familiar with such as spreadsheet-like rows, columns, and cells; and word processing justifications like left, center, right, and full. Consequentially, creating interfaces takes minutes instead of hours. Read the tutorial articles below to quickly get familiar with TableLayout. Once you do, you will never want to use another layout manager again!

Since its publication in 2002, TableLayout has rapidly become the most popular third party layout manager in the world. References to it can be found in languages from German to Japanese, and it has been used as a teaching aid in classes taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Join the thousands of developers who have been liberated from tedious GUI programming.

Download

		Current Release Binaries, source, JavaDoc, and extensions...
		License The license for TableLayout.

Commnunity

		Testimonies Quotes from software engineers who have used TableLayout and provided unsolicited feedback...
		Discussion Forums Enhancement requests, questions, problems, etc...
		History The history and future of TableLayout.

Articles

		TableLayout Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction Tired of using GridBagLayout or nesting panels to get the layout you want? Learn about TableLayout and what it can do for you. Write GUIs in minutes instead of hours.
		TableLayout Tutorial, Part 2: Building Powerful GUIs Create much more powerful interfaces using techiques such as cell spanning, toggling groups of controls, scrolling, and component orientation.
		Table Dancer This is an article about TableLayout that was published by the German software magazine Javamagazin. An English translation provided by Google is here. A larger copy of the picture to the left is provided here.

Humor

Totally Gridbag: An animated weblog entry A funny flash cartoon illustrating the frustrations of using layout managers.