Inner or outer class

[Dipke]

Hi,

I am building a GUI.
This has a menubar, toolbar and a mainpanel in different classes.
Is it better to create a package GUI and put the classes in an outer classes or to put all the classes into a large GUI with inner classes ?

Grz

[JosAH]

I am building a GUI.
This has a menubar, toolbar and a mainpanel in different classes.
Is it better to create a package GUI and put the classes in an outer classes or to put all the classes into a large GUI with inner classes ?

Start by implementing everything as top level classes (possibly in one or more packages); if some classes really have no right of existence outside another top level class you can make it an inner class. Note that a top level class that contains many inner classes becomes one big moloch of a class that is hard to maintain. Maybe a bit better would be to leave them all at the top level but don't make them public classes.

kind regards,

Jos

[Dipke]

Hi JosAH,

Thanks for the advice.

Dipke