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Best GUI designer for eclipse?
Is there any Eclipse Plugin tool(s) who can help to create Graphical User Interface for (swing, awt or swt), because I'm tired of writing everytime the code of Panels, Labels, ...
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Yes. Use WindowBuilder Pro (provided by Google). It supports SWT and Swing as well with multiple layouts (Group layout, MiGLayout etc.) It's integrated out of the box with Eclipse Indigo, but you can install plugin on previous versions (3.4/3.5/3.6):
There are lot of GUI designers even like Eclipse plugins, just few of them could use both, Swing and SWT..
WindowBuilder Pro GUI Designer - eclipse marketplace
WindowBuilder Pro GUI Designer - Google code home page
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Jigloo SWT/Swing GUI Builder - eclipse market place
Jigloo SWT/Swing GUI Builder - home page
The window builder is quite better tool..
But IMHO, GUIs created by those tools have really ugly and unmanageable code..
Yes, there is one. It is an eclipse-plugin called Visual Editor. You can download it here
try http://code.google.com/p/swinghtmltemplate/
this will allow you to create gui with html-like syntax
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I am using IntelliJ for java application development using swing . It is difficult to manage content using layout manager. So, is there is any facility to make drag and drop features like in visual studio for vb.net...
You can use IntelliJ's GUI designer
JetBrains website has some resources detailing how to use it:
Designing GUI. Major Steps
Creating and Opening Forms
GUI Designer Basics
Components of the GUI Designer
There are also several walkthroughs available on YouTube
Here are a few screen shots showing how to launch/display the designer:
The designer:
I want to make an animation using Java FX.
Basically, I don't know where to start. I've been looking for a Java FX editor and I found out that there is an editor apart from netbeans. But that editor, now is integrated to netbeans (after netbeans 7.x.x) and I can't find the way of making a Java FX animation using the modern version of netbeans.
And, can I make an animated frame, just one? So that the rest of the frames keep the same as they were before (non-animated) ? Or do I need to start a whole new animated project and do all the coding in Java FX?
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Java FX is not just an animation, presentation or game building tool like Flash, but a great UI framework with the power and flexibility of Java.
It is a relatively new technology that there is no Flash like tool to do complex drawings and animations, AFAIK.
I guess you mentioned about Scene Builder as the NetBeans integrated editor in your question. Scene Builder lets you build UI through drag & drop just like the NetBeans Swing GUI Builder or Visual Studio. It uses a special XML based markup language called FXML to write the UI.
Unfortunately, It runs a lot slower than it should, even on a 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 CPU.
IMHO, the best option is to programatically code your UI in Java FX.
Resources
Official Java FX 2 Getting Started Tutorial
JavaFX 2 Scene Builder Tutorial
Another Java FX Getting Started Tutorial
I am looking for an open source browser component like the ones in DJ Project (http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/index.html) for SWING. I tried using DJ Project (which I learned about from Best Java/Swing browser component?), but I noticed that it hasn't been updated in recent months.
If there is an easy way to make a web browser using JInternalFrame, that would be awesome as well.
Thank you in advance!
I'm trying to develop an Android application with UI. So it's little complex for me to create UI with codes. I was using Visual Studio for long time where visual design is piece of cake. I also used Netbeans and Eclipse for java applications with UI but when it comes to Android I can't find a good way for UI desing. There is a visual design part in Eclipse but I want to use Netbeans as long as it's possible. Also I think DroidDraw is not good enaugh too. So I seached on web for Netbean's visual design tool and found nothing. If there is no tool or plug-in like this WHY? Thank you for any help.
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Well, long time passed. I just get used to code my ui. Also I am using Android Studio. 8)
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just saw that you've used DroidDraw.
There is official GUI designer included in ADT. Browse for main.xml (project/res/layout/main.xml) and doubleclick it :)
enjoy!
The combination of ADT (Android Development Kit) and eclipse 3.1 + will help you to develop the application graphically. Once you open the layout xml files, click “Graphical Layout” tab at the bottom of the section to open the graphical view. Now you can drag and drop components & also update layout.
But it is better to understand how the xml is defined in the layout. This will help you to fix any problems (in case).
Hope this helps.
Using Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7 (delphi or c++builder) allows for that task but it builds apk files with ome 10mo,
I am making a GUI in netbeans. I have a button and when users clicks it i want to popup a jframe. How is this possible? could someone give me an example?
Are you programming a NetBeans RCP application?
If so then take a look to the Dialogs API: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-dialogs/index.html?org/openide/NotifyDescriptor.html
If not, give a try NetBeans RCP can improve the code quality and modularity of your java desktop applications.