Comparing the usability of grid-bag and constraint-based layouts

Created on 2021-11-25T01:16:26-06:00

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Grid-bags are easy to work with as they place widgets on to a grid.

Constraint systems can adapt to bizzare and specific kinds of GUI layouts.

Grid bags are easy to edit for small interfaces but began to take additional time to police individual cell settings as the complexity of the GUI increased.

Constraint editing (via Auckland Layout Manager) had a constant amount of complexity; as the GUI grew in size the amount of time to modify it remained about the same.