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.
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We can create Java GUI based application using net-beans IDE and also we can create it using Notepad . Using netbeans or eclipse it is very easy . But I saw every where that every one used notepad. So I just want to know that the best way for create Java GUI application.
Its better preferring some IDE like Netbeans , Eclipse since because, you can consume time in creating the gui by utilizing the features like drag and drop, in-build function support suggestion which proper demonstration of usage and syntax.
If you are developing gui from scratch using notepad, it may takes more time, one developing things in that way should be thorough knowledge in syntax and all other functionalities
The Java Tutorials on Swing are a pretty good resource. If you don't like hand-coding your UI with Java code there are several GUI builders out there where you can lay out your UI visually and just fill in the behaviour in code-behind. E.g. Netbeans has such a thing and there is WindowBuilder for Eclipse.
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.
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
I'm thinking about writing a simple UI designer in Java. I'm just playing with ideas at the moment to see if it is feasible.
It would be good to have something like this as all of our UIs are generated from XML. Just wondering if anyone has tried anything like this before. I know there will be a lot of effort in doing something like this.
Does anyone know of any 3rd party products that already do something like this?
If not then at a simple level, it will have drag and drop support for any component that can be positioned on a panel. Then extra bits will be added. Are there any good samples on the net for this?
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Dated back to 2005, this has an overview of Java UI Builders:
http://www.fullspan.com/articles/java-gui-builders.html
Here is a page on how to use the Eclipse Visual Editor:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecvisual/
Here is a good page on the different approaches to build UIs in Java:
http://leepoint.net/notes-java/GUI/misc/80gui-generator.html
Which GUI technology are you using? Swing? NetBeans has a very good drag-and-drop Swing GUI editor. For Eclipse there are several plugins.
If you want to see other projects in which a Swing GUI is generated from XML config files, there are different libraries that do this.
Eclipse 4.0 Developer Preview was just released with an xml based toolkit called XWT. It can be styled with CSS and has a GUI builder. This is a developer preview and there will be some changes over the next year as it progresses to release 4.1, but it is useable right now and the community support is really good.
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 :)