I have just installed Eclipse 3.4 and found out that there is not a plugin to create Swing applications yet. I also have found that there is a Matisse implementation in MyEclipse IDE, but I'd like to now whether there is such a Matisse plugin for free.
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there isnt one for free. myeclipse is the only way to run matisse inside eclipse.
pdeva
2008-11-04 01:50:29
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I did a quick Google search and found that you could use Netbeans Matisse and Eclipse in parallel:
NetBeans Wiki: UsingNetbeansMatisseAndEclipseInParallel
It seems to basically involve building the Swing GUI in Netbeans and doing the other coding tasks from within Eclipse.
coobird
2008-11-04 02:36:54
Yeah, I have being doing this. But this is not much practical, unfortunately. I'll read the article you recommended.
Paulo Guedes
2008-11-05 16:42:46
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Although this is not a true answer to your question, you may as well look at alternative solutions in terms of layout management: Matisse and GroupLayout are neither the only way, nor the best one, to define your GUI forms.
I would suggest you take a look at:
- MigLayout (very powerful and quite simple)
- and DesignGridLayout (quite powerful and very simple)
Both are open source and have a friendly license (not GPL). A quick search on Google will give you the links immediately.
Disclaimer: I am one of DesignGridLayout both project owners, but I point you to it because I'm convinced it provides a better way to define Swing layouts.
jfpoilpret
2008-11-04 07:39:11
No problem, I'll check it. I mentioned Matisse because it's the best design I've knew so far, but I'm open to alternatives, as long as I can still work in eclipse. :-)
Paulo Guedes
2008-11-05 16:41:39
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Instatiations Swing Designer is the best in my opinion. We settled on it after trying may different Eclipse plugins.
I didn't know it. Thank you very much for the recomendation. I'll try it.
Paulo Guedes
2008-11-05 16:39:42