Foam 1.3

Foam is a useful and easy-to-use Java GUI development system that features a simplified GUI screen building without traditional layout headaches. Foam separates GUI designs from Java code. Great for beginners and professionals alike. Dont get bogged down with GridBag and other layouts. Rise to the top of Java Swing development with Foam.

Power
Foam powerful toolset includes the basics such as bean alignment, and also centering, keep the same size, offset by 5 pixels or keep at 33% across. Foam will even let you set tab ordering just by clicking the beans in order. The best way to see this in effect is simply to watch the amazing videos!

Multiple platforms; one design.

Foam knows about different platforms interface spacing. Drop a bean next to a dialog margin, and when running on Mac it will be inset 14 pixels; on Windows 7 dialog units; on GTK 12 pixels. OK, Cancel and Help buttons appear in the correct position for the platform your application is running on, with the correct spacing and in the correct order!

The Foam designer can be installed on Windows, Mac, and Linux. At runtime, Foam needs a Java 1.4 or 5.0 JRE.

Layout in one line of code

Foam separates your user interface from your Java logic. The code to declare your beans is provided for you by Foam. Dialog code can be produced with action handlers in place such as onOK().

Scalability

Foam is being deployed from small-screen PDAs (a version of the Foam runtime for Java 1.1 is supplied) up to complex dialogs containing over 150 beans! Just thinking of attempting and maintaining that complexity with GridBag makes our heads go crazy. Foam makes even the most complex dialogs a breeze.

What Foam does not do:

Foam doesnt generate a ton of Java code that youd better not hand-edit, or it wont load in again.

Foam doesnt provide a dialog for you to enter grid bag constraints.

Foam doesnt use GridBag layout at all. Foam uses its own custom layout designed specifically for visual interface design.