HTML/JavaScript UI widgets GUI builder

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HTML/JavaScript UI widgets GUI builder

I've heard and used some of the libraries like Ext JS, qooXdoo, jQuery UI, dijit. I know there are unofficial attempts to create GUI builders but they are not really great.

Any chance there is a HTML/JavaScript UI widget library with a decent GUI builder?

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Ext has a couple of GUI builders.

GUI Designer by webBlocks (much nicer and up to date) http://www.webblocks.eu/designer/index.php

GUI Builder by tof2k (he admitted he had no time to work on it anymore when he released it)

altCognito 2009-04-30 23:25:50

In fact I think http://www.projectspace.nl/ is updated version, still I was wondering if there is anything else.

Raf 2009-04-30 23:30:56

Ha! I thought it was by the webBlocks guys. Well, we'll see what else is out there I guess.

altCognito 2009-04-30 23:32:29

Here's the thread I found it under, it looks like it was written by them, but when they are cloned like this, it's hard to say:http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28133

altCognito 2009-04-30 23:33:38

Ext JS is nice but seems to be a bit to heavy (also it's free only for Open Source projects). The GUI builder looks impressive but still too far to be considered easy to use. Best and easiest GUI builder I've seen so far is the one in Visual C# 2008. I think it's about time to bring some decent GUI builder to web development.I'm actually considering starting project that would use jQuery + standard html components + chosen jQuery UI components and plugins..

Raf 2009-05-04 01:07:35

Oh, yknow, as well as I know ext, you'd think I would have noticed that licensing issue. That's like not even being open source.

altCognito 2009-05-04 02:03:20

+1 A:

Glimmer is a GUI builder for jQuery. The builder is a closed-source Windows application, but the generated code is all open-source.
Isomorphic Software has a web-based GUI builder, and is open-source.
And then there are ExtJS GUI builders that altCognito mentions.

Eric Nguyen 2009-05-16 01:57:07

Glimmer is not GUI builder, I didn't see any components involved there. I didn't see Isomorphic's SmartClient VisualBuilder in action as it looks like it requires JSP to work. The whole framework seems to be quite powerful but at the same time slow and heavy. Also version with VisualBuilder isn't free.

Raf 2009-05-16 21:25:37

In addition, there's Cappuccino, which is a GUI Builder for mac-like web-standards-based applications that run in the browser. They developed a language called Objective-J that duplicates the Mac-native Objective-C language and runs on Javascript:http://cappuccino.org/learn/

Eric Nguyen 2009-05-20 20:42:58

You may try web based sigma builder. It has more than 30 gui components supported. This builder is pure javacript stuff, the only thing which need php is to save the generated script in the server side. BTW, This builder is free under LGPL license. Open source

Bussy 2010-04-06 10:25:13

+1 A:

I am search for the same thing. After trying several ones, I find an open source gui builder. It's very very easy to design gui, you may see it in action. http://www.sigmawidgets.com/products/sigma_visual/VisualJS/index.html It will take several seconds to load it up at the first. Unfortunately, it doesn't support jquery.

BoBo 2010-04-29 08:56:35

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I can't vote just yet, but I would like to second sigma widgets. And it does currently support jquery... http://www.sigmawidgets.com/products/sigma_visual/VisualJS/index.html

acklenx 2010-05-17 18:02:28

http://www.generalinterface.org/

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