GUI Builder

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vaum - 02 Mar 2004 18:15 GMT

Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
programming time..

thanks in advance

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Shane Mingins - 02 Mar 2004 20:31 GMT

> Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
> which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
> programming time..

Have a look at Intellij IDEA http://www.intellij.com/idea/

The new version has a form builder that (reportedly) allows you to keep the
GUI code separate from application code, domain code etc etc.

Beware of GUI builders though as they can encourage bad design techniques.

Shane

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steve - 02 Mar 2004 21:36 GMT

>> Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
>> which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
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> Shane

or look at eclipse or even oracle jdeveloper, both can be downloaded for
free.

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P.Hill - 03 Mar 2004 04:22 GMT

>>>Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
>>>which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
>>>programming time..

[...]

> or look at eclipse or even oracle jdeveloper, both can be downloaded for
> free.

JDeveloper? I thought JBuilder was the free thing with GUI building.
Is there a working GU builder or Eclipse?

-Paul

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steve - 05 Mar 2004 21:52 GMT

>>>> Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
>>>> which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
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> -Paul

yes oracle jdeveloper, I use it on the mac.

Eclipse has a working GUI builder , but it only works on whindows at this
time

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David Segall - 03 Mar 2004 15:41 GMT

>Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
>which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
>programming time..
>
>thanks in advance

My apologies to regular readers of this news group and the OP for
simply reproducing my most recent post on the topic. The list is
restricted to integrated development environments that include a "what
you see is what you get" editor for graphical user interfaces so it
does not include several tools that just provide assistance in writing
a GUI.

Netbeans (www.netbeans.org) is free and Open Source. I think you will
find it the best choice. Borland's JBuilder Foundation
(http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/foundation/) is also a free download.
Oracle's JDeveloper (http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/content.html)
is free but the license severely restricts what you can do with
programs you write if you do not pay for it.

Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is a popular Open Source IDE and there are
free or cheap plug-ins like
http://www.cloudgarden.com/jigloo/index.html,
http://www.assisiplugins.com/index_start.html and
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/ that provide WYSIWYG GUI development.

Sun One Studio 4 Community Edition, which is derived from Netbeans, is
still available, without charge, from
http://jsecom16d.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet?StoreId=8&PartDetailId=FJCI9-401
-TL9M&TransactionId=try&LMLoadBalanced=
but has been superseded by Studio 5. Sun suggest you use Netbeans if
you want a free version.

IBM has a free version of Visual Age for Java at
http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/FrameData/Master?OpenDocument&FSet=1&Doc3=4
589&Title=Overview&DPart=Overview&Doc4=4594.
It has a limit on the number of classes in your application and, in
any case, has been superseded by Websphere Studio Application
Developer (http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/studioappdev/).
Websphere is based on Eclipse but has many enhancements including a
WYSIWYG editor for GUI's. It is not free but a 60 day trial is
available.

The popular IntelliJ IDEA (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/index.html)
also includes a GUI builder. It is not free but you can download a 30
day trial.

I believe that this is a complete list of free Java IDE's that include
a WYSIWYG GUI builder and contains references to all the commercial
vendors of such a product. Please submit a follow-up if you have a
correction.

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Graham Perks - 04 Mar 2004 02:35 GMT

Absolutely. Foam was designed for rapid UI creation and to avoid the
typical maintenance cost of Swing layouts.

http://www.computersinmotion.com

A quick look at some of the demo movies will show how fast it is to
create and change interfaces.

Cheers,
Graham Perks.

> >Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
> >which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
> >programming time..

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Mike Lischke - 03 Mar 2004 18:27 GMT

>Can anyone suggest a good GUI builder tool? I'm looking for a tool
>which will help ease GUI development by significantly reducing
>programming time..

Jigloo: www.cloudgarden.com
SWT-Designer: www.swt-designer.com

Mike

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