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About Metro GUI in desktop application

I am making a software that will support multiple features simultaneously. I know the logic, and I have developed the features to support.

I want my project to have a look similar to Metro GUI of Windows 8. It need not to be specifically Metro, but similar.

I know about all the layouts in standard Swing library. Currently I am using GroupLayout though. How should I proceed, any ideas? Because the UI seems dull and I don't want to use 3rd party APIs either. Any suggestions?

Solution

  • I personally would use GridBagLayout, simply because it would allow you to supply better weighted constraints to each "group", but even that might not be entirely suitable.

    I would also take a look for the Metro UX guidelines for more ideas

    These might be helpful