Porting to Griffon

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By aalmiray
via java.dzone.com
Published: Sep 15 2008 / 16:14

In Flying with Griffon, I created a simple scenario in Griffon, to show how this new Swing MVC framework functions and what some of its benefits are. A different approach, one that is potentially even more illustrative, is to take an existing Java desktop application and port it to Griffon. That is what I propose to do in this article.

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Gregg Bolinger replied ago:

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Cooked up a quick MigLayout version of the view. Not quite perfect but a good start. Looks pretty much the same. Probably is a better way:


application(title:'Anagrams', minimumSize:[297, 200], location:[50,50],

    pack:true, locationByPlatform:true) {

    menuBar( id: 'menuBar') {

        menu(text: 'File', mnemonic: 'F') {

            menuItem(aboutAction)

            menuItem(exitAction)

        }

    }

    panel(border:emptyBorder(12), layout:new MigLayout('fill')) {

        label(text: 'Scrambled Word:')

        textField(id: 'scrambledWord', text: bind {model.scrambledWord},

            columns: 20, editable: false,

            constraints: "wrap")

        label(text: 'Your Guess:')

        textField(id: 'guessedWord',

            columns: 20,

            constraints: "wrap")

        label(id:'feedbackLabel', text: bind {model.feedback}, constraints: "wrap")

        panel(name:'buttonPanel', layout:new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT), constraints: "growx, span") {



          button(action: guessWordAction)

          button(action: nextWordAction)

        }



        bean( model, guessedWord: bind {guessedWord.text} )

    }

}