Is there any freeware at all to support creation of GUI by drag and drop ...?

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Rahman - 03 Sep 2003 15:31 GMT

hi all,

I wonder is there any freeware available to create simple Java GUI by simply
draging and dropping the controls something close to VB?

Or any library to be used by exsiting ones eg Eclipse?

any comments

rahman

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chris esposito - 03 Sep 2003 17:01 GMT

> hi all,
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> rahman

Java has GUI layout managers, which are not a standard part of any
Microsoft GUI toolkit I know of, so if you use a layout manager then
visually building a GUI isn't exactly like VB which provides exact
manual placement only (or it did as of VB 6; I haven't used the VB.net
stuff much). That aside, Netbeans has a nice visual builder
(http://www.netbeans.org). I believe there is a version of JBuilder that
is free, and it also has a visual builder, although I haven't used it.

Eclipse has a GUI builder plugin that you can get to via their plugins
page - from memory I think it's called assisi, or something like that.

There are others as well, so I would check places like sourceforge for
them.

Chris

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