Netbeans/Eclipse extracting GUI code

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Netbeans/Eclipse extracting GUI code

Is there a plugin that would allow me to design the GUI in eclipse or netbeans and then extract the source code to be used in another environment?

I am much more comfortable using emacs for my development but gui design is much easier with a WYSIWYG environment. What i am looking for is design the frame in eclipse/netbeans and then extract just gui code so i can import it to my project?

Like JFrameBuilderdoes.

+3 A:

What's wrong with using both Netbeans/Eclipse and emacs on the same set of files?

Use Netbeans or Eclipse to design GUI.
Close Netbeans/Eclipse.
Open Emacs and code away.
Close Emacs.
Rinse and repeat.

eed3si9n 2009-05-17 07:36:39

This seems like a good approach; I use the same thing in Visual Studio. But emacs has an autorevert.el, which reverts (re-opens) files that are being visited, when those files get changed outside of emacs. I think it is off by default, but I turn it on in buffers where I may be editing in an IDE. use this in your java-mode-hook: (turn-on-auto-revert-mode) Also, you may not have to close netbeans/Eclipse to get this to work. They may be smart enough to have an auto-revert equivalent.

Cheeso 2009-05-18 16:45:08

+1 A:

Personally, what I have experienced is that GUI design in Swing is best done without a WYSIWYG. I came into Java after many years of developing applications with Delphi, and at that time there was no suitable GUI designer for Swing, which was a bit of a shock for me.

In order for a manual UI design/coding to be efficient a really good layout manager should be used. MigLayout is one of such layout managers. Since I've started using it I have never looked back at WYSIWIG tools -- a sheet of paper, a pencil, MigLayout and a full control over your code.

01es 2009-05-17 14:16:22

+1 for MigLayout

jb 2009-11-22 19:00:04

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