Bug 257519

Created attachment 158087 [details]
Swing GUI builder - Alignment broken

It is often really a pain in the ass to align elements accurate to a millimetre, because of the gapping or the automatic alignment to a grid. Hope it's understandable, when I try to align an element to an other and the GUI Builder catches the border of the other element to align it to the same X or Y coordinate.

As you can see it in my little screen capture, it is not really possible to do what I want. You see a list of checkboxes and each checkbox should has the same position. I mean line for line, checkboxes should have the same margins to each other elements and so on. What you see, there is a little missalignment and I try to align it via mouse. The one checkbox jumps to an other position, the label too, after mouse up on an really other position.

I need 2 things here:

1. Disable the gapping or the catch of the element to align it automatically to not align it to a grid.

2. I need to align each element with my keyboard. This is normal in paint, paintDOTnet, Photoshop and so on. You can hit the arrow keys to align the elements accurate to a millimetre or you can hit shift + arrow key to move the element with more space. This is not working at all. I think I have to change the XML of the form file separately to change the coordinates if they are inside. If not I have to find another GUI builder.

What is implemented, when I hit ctrl + arrow keys, the component will be duplicated.


Regards

Chris