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GUI designer plugin for Eclipse?

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T. - 16 Apr 2005 14:40 GMT
Hey,

I'm looking for a good, free GUI-designer plugin for Eclipse. I've used
the trial version of Swing Designer(tm) for a month and thought that was
great, but now the trial period is over :-)
Any suggestions for an alternative?

Thank,

Thomas
Roland - 16 Apr 2005 14:58 GMT
> Hey,
>
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>
> Thomas
Eclipse's own Visual Editor:
<http://www.eclipse.org/vep/>
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Roland de Ruiter
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T. - 16 Apr 2005 20:14 GMT
>> Hey,
>>
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> Eclipse's own Visual Editor:
> <http://www.eclipse.org/vep/>

Works great! Thank you.

T.
john - 20 Apr 2005 22:55 GMT
The current release of Eclipse is 3.0.2

The latest release of VEP appears to only
support Eclipse release 3.0.1

Is this correct?
Can VEP run on Eclipse 3.0.2?

Thank you for the feedback
IchBin - 16 Apr 2005 21:42 GMT
> Hey,
>
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Thomas

VE is nice.

I am running on Eclipse 3.1M6. WindowBuilder v4.0.0 supports this
Eclipse version.

You could look at WindowBuilder v4.0.0 http://www.windowbuilderpro.com/

This is a really nice product.

    * Support for Eclipse 3.1 M6 & Eclipse 3.0.2
    * Support for the SWT_AWT bridge allowing SWT and Swing to be mixed
          o New SWT_AWT palette
          o Embed any Swing widget into an SWT or RCP window
    * Support for JGoodies FormLayout
          o Graphically manage columns and rows
          o Graphically manage cell alignment and column/row spanning
          o Graphically reorder and resize columns and rows
          o Automatically handle gap columns and rows
          o Intelligently convert existing layouts to JGFL
          o Support for different units like pixels and dialog units
          o Support for all predefined FormLayout types
          o Support for grouping and ungrouping columns
          o Color highlighting for grouped columns and rows
          o Floating layout assistant for cells, columns and rows
          o Intelligently merge and split columns and rows
    * Support for new Eclipse 3.1 SWT elements
          o Support for the SWT Spinner & Link control
          o Support for the SWT TreeColumns
          o Support for virtual tables
    * Enhanced SWT support
          o Support for SWT DragSource & DropTarget and custom SWT
drag/drop transfer classes
          o Support for SWT TableItems & TreeItems
          o Support for SWT Cursor property
          o Support for strikeout and underline properties for SWT
fonts (Windows-only)
          o Support for new 3.0 SWT RowLayout properties
          o Enhanced SWT FormLayout support
    * Enhanced JFace support
          o Support for ApplicationWindow coolbars
          o Property support for JFace Action styles & accelerators
          o Icon support for SWT Dialogs, TitleAreaDialogs and
ApplicationWindows
          o Support for Shell events in ApplicationWindow
    * Enhanced Swing support
          o Support for custom Swing properties, editors and customizers
          o Support for instantiating custom JTable/JTree/JComboBox models
          o Added support for parsing and editing JTable columns
    * Enhanced NLS support
          o Enhanced NLS support to allow selection of any messages class
          o Added ability to auto-externalize strings for newly added
widgets
    * Editor & Property Pane enhancements
    * Code Parsing enhancements

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Thanks in Advance...
IchBin
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T. - 16 Apr 2005 21:57 GMT
>> Hey,
>>
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>
> This is a really nice product.

Looks very nice too. I'll check it out when I have some more time on my
hands. At the moment I'm gonna go with VE.

Thanks,

Thomas
Eric Clayberg - 18 Apr 2005 14:19 GMT
> I am running on Eclipse 3.1M6. WindowBuilder v4.0.0 supports this Eclipse
> version.
>
> You could look at WindowBuilder v4.0.0 http://www.windowbuilderpro.com/
>
> This is a really nice product.

Thanks!

FYI...Swing Designer is the Swing editing component of WindowBuilder.

WindowBuilder = Swing Designer + SWT Designer. :-)

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.windowbuilderpro.com/

Author: "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins"
http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321228472 


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