There is no particularly satisfactory way to set a fixed window size on e.g. a Frame using AbsoluteLayout, though this is a common request and seems reasonable. Resizing the design window has no eff
ect.

Suggest: boolean property of AbsoluteLayout to use a fixed dimension as the result of the getPreferredSize() call, instead of the current calculation. This Dimension would also be a writable Bean prop
erty. In design-time, the boolean property could be exposed in the property sheet for the layout; when clicked off, things would behave as now; when clicked on, the dimension property would be more or
 less bound to the actual size of the design window (rather, the size of the container in design view), whatever that was, and resizing that window (or subcomponent, maybe) would affect the generated
code correspondingly. Possibly the dimension could be exposed on the property sheet as well, & could be changed w/ the usual Dimension property editor, as an alternate interface (if an exact pixel siz

e was desirable). With grid on, perhaps window resize should snap to nearest grid size.

[In progress in new Form Editor for AbsLayout. Does not yet work perfectly, but idea is there. Still does not synch frame size with apparent design of design window, which might be by design.]