MiG Layout

[Charles Sexton]

Does anyone have a direct link to download the jar file for swing? I tried to find the jar file from the MiG website but I couldn't find a download with a jar file, all they had were downloads with class files. I didn't want to post here asking this question but the MiG website is so unorganized in my opinion. I setup an account to post on the forums but couldn't find a button anywhere to post a new topic. I just found that ridiculous and I hope that someone here can help me as I have heard that MiG is very popular and widely used compared to the default layout managers for swing.

[Paul Clapham]

I googled for "mig layout" and got directed pretty firmly to http://www.miglayout.com/ -- which halfway down the page has a link to "Downloads Folder". From there I selected the "4.0" link which led to a page which appeared to have all kinds of jar files available for download. Probably you got distracted by something else which I didn't notice, but anyway I couldn't find any downloads for class files.

[Charles Sexton]

Paul Clapham wrote:I googled for "mig layout" and got directed pretty firmly to http://www.miglayout.com/ -- which halfway down the page has a link to "Downloads Folder". From there I selected the "4.0" link which led to a page which appeared to have all kinds of jar files available for download. Probably you got distracted by something else which I didn't notice, but anyway I couldn't find any downloads for class files.

if you download the jar files you end up with class files and 0 jar files......

[Rob Spoor]

http://www.migcalendar.com/miglayout/versions/4.0/miglayout-4.0-swing.jar is the JAR file (for Swing, there is also an SWT one and one with both).

[Charles Sexton]

Rob Spoor wrote:http://www.migcalendar.com/miglayout/versions/4.0/miglayout-4.0-swing.jar is the JAR file (for Swing, there is also an SWT one and one with both).

ok question, since all of the files are either a MF File or Class Files the entire folder is the jar file? How would I do the jar file directory path for eclipse?

[Paul Clapham]

I don't know what you're doing, but when I download it I get a jar file downloaded.

As for Eclipse, it's called "build path". I don't understand what you mean by "doing" a jar file directory path. To add a jar file to your project's build path you just navigate to the jar file, as far as I remember.

[Charles Sexton]

Paul Clapham wrote:I don't know what you're doing, but when I download it I get a jar file downloaded.

As for Eclipse, it's called "build path". I don't understand what you mean by "doing" a jar file directory path. To add a jar file to your project's build path you just navigate to the jar file, as far as I remember.

If I am correct the "location" of the jar file on your computer is called the directory path ex. C:\Users\UserName\Documents.....When I download the file I don't get a jar file......

[Charles Sexton]

Charles Sexton wrote:

Paul Clapham wrote:I don't know what you're doing, but when I download it I get a jar file downloaded.

As for Eclipse, it's called "build path". I don't understand what you mean by "doing" a jar file directory path. To add a jar file to your project's build path you just navigate to the jar file, as far as I remember.

If I am correct the "location" of the jar file on your computer is called the directory path ex. C:\Users\UserName\Documents.....When I download the file I don't get a jar file......

I am hundred percent sure that I don't get a file that is a jar file only files that are MF and class.....I can provide screenshots to prove that I am not getting a jar file.....Is the whole file a jar file, instead of miglayout-4.0-swing.zip should be miglayout-4.0-swing.jar? I was going to ask for help from mig support staff but I can't post a new topic in their forums......

[Paul Clapham]

I click on the link which Rob Spoor posted and my browser pops up a dialog box which says "You have chosen to open miglayout-4.0-swing.jar... Would you like to save this file? (Save) (Cancel)". And when I click on the Save button it downloads the jar file into a folder on my computer.

[Charles Sexton]

Paul Clapham wrote:I click on the link which Rob Spoor posted and my browser pops up a dialog box which says "You have chosen to open miglayout-4.0-swing.jar... Would you like to save this file? (Save) (Cancel)". And when I click on the Save button it downloads the jar file into a folder on my computer.

I click save as and I save it to my desktop. It is one folder, I open the folder and it brings up two folders, net and META-INF. I open META-INF folder and it contains the MANIFEST.MF file. I click back and click on net folder then click on miginfocom folder. Then I click on layout folder. This folder contains several .class files. I click back and then click on the swing folder and it has nothing but .class files. So that is why I am asking for help. The jar file isn't their when I download.....any suggestions or advice?

[Charles Sexton]

Charles Sexton wrote:

Paul Clapham wrote:I click on the link which Rob Spoor posted and my browser pops up a dialog box which says "You have chosen to open miglayout-4.0-swing.jar... Would you like to save this file? (Save) (Cancel)". And when I click on the Save button it downloads the jar file into a folder on my computer.

I click save as and I save it to my desktop. It is one folder, I open the folder and it brings up two folders, net and META-INF. I open META-INF folder and it contains the MANIFEST.MF file. I click back and click on net folder then click on miginfocom folder. Then I click on layout folder. This folder contains several .class files. I click back and then click on the swing folder and it has nothing but .class files. So that is why I am asking for help. The jar file isn't their when I download.....any suggestions or advice?

can you tell me the name of the sub folder in which the jar file is in?

[Paul Clapham]

You downloaded the jar file to your desktop. Apparently your desktop interprets it as being a folder and shows you the contents. I have no idea why that is -- I don't even know what operating system you're using or how you configured it to do that. All I can suggest is that you download it to a more ordinary folder and not to your desktop.

[Charles Sexton]

Paul Clapham wrote:You downloaded the jar file to your desktop. Apparently your desktop interprets it as being a folder and shows you the contents. I have no idea why that is -- I don't even know what operating system you're using or how you configured it to do that. All I can suggest is that you download it to a more ordinary folder and not to your desktop.

I am running Windows 8.....Does anyone have any suggestions or have ever encountered this problem before?

[Charles Sexton]

Paul Clapham wrote:You downloaded the jar file to your desktop. Apparently your desktop interprets it as being a folder and shows you the contents. I have no idea why that is -- I don't even know what operating system you're using or how you configured it to do that. All I can suggest is that you download it to a more ordinary folder and not to your desktop.

Anyway to change the folder into a jar file?

[Paul Clapham]

Does that mean that you downloaded the jar file somewhere else and it still looks like a folder?

[Rob Spoor]

Recent versions of Windows have native support for ZIP files. Perhaps Windows 8 goes further than only checking the extension and sees that the JAR file is a ZIP file, and therefore treats it as a ZIP file. Windows 7 (perhaps Vista already) treats ZIP files as folders. That doesn't mean that it is a folder, it's still a ZIP file (or JAR file).

Charles, I think you'll see that the icon of the new "folder" is slightly different from other folders. There is probably a little zipper or something similar added.

[Paul Clapham]

I don't think it matters in the least how Windows displays the jar file. Why don't you just add it to your project's build path and see what happens?

[Rob Spoor]

For any software it doesn't matter, but I can understand that users can miss the difference between a (JAR/ZIP) file and a folder. I think that there was never any problem other than the communication between Windows and Charles.

[Paul Clapham]

Yes, I certainly got carried away by that as well. But I have to say I'm impressed that Windows 8 displays a jar archive as a folder. In Windows 7 I've got used to renaming X.jar as X.zip just so I can look at the contents.

[Charles Sexton]

Rob Spoor wrote:Recent versions of Windows have native support for ZIP files. Perhaps Windows 8 goes further than only checking the extension and sees that the JAR file is a ZIP file, and therefore treats it as a ZIP file. Windows 7 (perhaps Vista already) treats ZIP files as folders. That doesn't mean that it is a folder, it's still a ZIP file (or JAR file).

Charles, I think you'll see that the icon of the new "folder" is slightly different from other folders. There is probably a little zipper or something similar added.

Ok thank you, I was looking for a .jar file the entire time. I will try adding the directory path to eclipse and see what happens. I will try it this weekend, have too much school work at the moment.

[Charles Sexton]

Rob Spoor wrote:For any software it doesn't matter, but I can understand that users can miss the difference between a (JAR/ZIP) file and a folder. I think that there was never any problem other than the communication between Windows and Charles.

Yeh I was looking for a .jar file within the .zip file

[Charles Sexton]

Ok just for future reference, in order to fix this problem please follow the steps below.

On Windows 8,

Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View Tab -> Uncheck hide folder extension -> Click Apply then Ok - > Close Control Panel -> Right Click MiG Layout zip file and choose rename -> Replace the end of the file name from .zip to .jar -> Hit enter and click ok with the prompt that Windows throws up.....

Thanks guys for the help.....Thought their was issues with the download or something.....