27.6 Layout Management (cont.)

• The problem is making user the buttons are placed correctly inside the frame.
• Some user interface toolkits supply a graphical layout tool to define the placement of buttons, text controls, and other user interface elements in a frame.
• Such tools make designing a user interface simple, but the design tends to be fragile.
• If a component size changes (perhaps the button text is translated to another language: "Goodbye" to "Auf Wiedersehen") the entire layout needs to be rebuilt.
• More robust layouts require a description of the logic behind the placement of the interface elements.

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