Building GUI - from inside out or from outside in?

[AF444]

Hi everyone.

Can someone with GUI development experience from the industry please tell me if the conventions tell to start developing GUI from the inside out (first define all the widgets independently and then add them to some layout) or in the opposite direction (first defining the layout and then defining the widgets and adding them to the layout)?

[cens]

ahh... I haven't quite reached that point but in swing i always make my components first, add listeners to them and the start programming each one individually