NetBeans for JavaFX I tried, but its really not stable, lot of things getting often changed and also it does not shift with NetBeans nightly builds. Also I am afraid will JavaFX remain or it will be deprecated by Oracle.
So, I was thinking if there is something else which has more advanced way of doing JavaFX UI designing, as an alternative tools of NetBeans for JavaFX.
Question: Is there any good JavaFX gui builders which generates readable code, with less mess?
Thanks in advance.
ex: http://www.reportmill.com/jfx/
You can try JavaFX Scene Builder to create visualy your FXML files. FXML files are the "UI" of your application! JavaFX Scene Builder is only for JavaFX 2.0!
Here is the documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/scenebuilder/1/user_guide/jsbpub-user_guide.htm
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I've been trying to use Fontawesomefx in my JavaFX application to enrich my UI design but after downloading the Jar file and uploading it into scene builder, it shows no UI components. When I search in SceneBuilder, I get to use it alright but then I can't use it in my Java code. PS. I've tried multiple versions of Jens fontawesome jars and I'm using Java 10.
Thanks in advance.
change the SceneBuilder with gluon. https://gluonhq.com/products/scene-builder/#download
after that import jar fontawasomefx.
i hope that helps. sorry my english little bad.
I'm very curious about working with JavaFX and standard Java programming in the Netbeans IDE.
If I worked on a standard Java application with the standard GUI interface, and then I decided to apply some JavaFX effects to this application, what type of project would I need to create, or will I have to change my project to javaFX application (since I only decided to use javaFX) ?
What would be the difference if I already had decided I wanted to use JavaFX to my application? Would I create a standard java project and then import the javaFX external packages, or create a JavaFX project?
I'm never sure on what project to create if I decided to use JavaFX.
Thanks much appreciated
JavaFx should be fully merged in SE 8 to 9. I had some troubles with adding jfx to existing projects in the beginning. There is currently no nice way, but the best way to add javafx to an old project is to create a new FX project and see this post.
The difference between a plain java project and an fx project is the template that is used and the dependecies (see above). So the real question is whether you need the skeleton code provided by the template. I found that it helped initially to get my bearings with FXML, but Scene Builder does much of that automagically.
I've been coding basic UIs in Java manually and using NetBeans, but recently switched to Eclipse Indigo. I use the visual class builder to design SWT user interfaces in Eclipse but found out that it's painfully slow and laggy. It takes about four seconds for a change to be displayed and it's virtually impossible to build complex and large UIs with it effectively. Is this its usual behavior and is this the preferred way of building a Java Swing GUI in Eclipse?
Since Google aquired Instantiations and then donated WindowBuilder to Eclipse foundation it is the preferred free, open source visual GUI editor for Swing, SWT and GWT.
You can also use Jigloo.
Their eclipse update site it, http://cloudgarden.com/update-site
I have used it in windows quite well. But when I use it in mac, most of the time it crash.
But windows builder seems better to me.
I've come across Netbeans but is there any tools out there that lets you build things event driven ?
I'm looking for a feature like being able to drag and drop UI components, and add methods to buttons directly by double clicking it (kinda like visualbasic) and viewing the source.
You can use Eclipse + Jigloo GUI Builder plugin.
In Netbean you have Matisse. See Designing a Swing GUI in NetBeans IDE
There's the Java Visual Editor.
This is nice if you're used to (or are considering using) Eclipse, which in itself is a very popular Java IDE.
IntelliJ IDEA features a nice GUI builder capable of using several layout managers. It's available in the open source community edition. I personally hate GUI builder and prefer more flexible solution like manually coding the layout with the all powerful and easy to use MiG Layout.
i'm new for java how can i add a button or others like Microsoft visual studio?
If you mean that you want a GUI builder, you'd better consider NetBeans with its Matisse. I think it is the most popular now for Swing apps.
This Google search shows a number of GUI builders for Eclipse
Many people prefer building GUI in Swing manually (just writing code) because it is by far not that difficult as in MSVC++ applications.
If you are looking for the Eclipse IDE to help with the development of Java applications, this can be found on eclipse.org.
Though I'm not sure I understood your question correctly.
What you are looking for is Eclipse Visual Editor. However, as pointed out by others, the GUI Builder from NetBeans (formerly known as Matisse) is more popular for Swing development.
Download Netbeans, its visual editor is very good, and will give you a the perfect Swing User Interface. Its also very easy to use.
When making desktop applications, i always do it with Netbeans, if i know the application will be more complicated later, then i do only one or two JFrame classes with Netbeans, and use them in a new project in Eclipse :)