Best GUI designer for eclipse?
I'm looking for a good GUI designer for swing in eclipse. My preference is for a free/open-source plugin. ...
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Integrating a custom gui framework with the VS designer
Imagine you homebrew a custom gui framework that doesn't use windows handles (compact framework, so please don't argue with "whys"). One of the main disadvantages of developing such a framework is that you lose compatability with the winform designer. So my question is to all of you who know a lot about VS customisation, would there be ...
Good Way to Debug Visual Studio Designer Errors
Hi, Does anyone know a good way to debug errors in the Visual Studio Designer? In our project we have tons of UserControls and many complex forms. For the complex ones, the Designer often throws various exceptions which doesn't help much and was wondering if there's some nice way to figure out what has gone wrong. The language is C# a...
How to tell if .net code is being run by Visual Studio designer
Hello, I am getting some errors thrown in my code when I open a win form in visual studio's designer. I would like to branch in my code and perform a different initialization if the form is being opened by designer than if it is being run for real. How can I determine at run-time if the code is being executed as part of designer openi...
Does anyone use Iron speed designer for rapid asp.net development?
Visual studio is pretty good but doesn't create stored procedures automatically. Iron Speed designer does supposedly. But is it any good? ...
GUI Design: How do you do it?
Do you draw your windows before constructing them? What do you use? I've tried the Pencil plugin for FF. I've tried MS Visio. I've tried paper & pencil. I've tried Designer Vista. etc. etc. etc. I'm currently leaning toward paper & pencil, but what about you; what's your preference? ...
Tools for creating a user interface prototype.
I need to create a prototype of a user interface. I'm googling, and find "Axure RP", but it is very expensive for our company. Another way for creating a user interface prototype is tools like Qt Designer, but it doesn't provide some cool functions and sometimes demand a bit of programming skills. Do you know a freeware tool for my tas...
What languages have a good GUI API/Designer?
I've been wanting to become proficient in a new language for a while. There are a few languages I want to learn but it's pretty important for me to be able to create a (Application) GUI. I work in C# so I have become very accustom to the GUI designer. I would love to get better with C++ or Java (both of which I have a small amount of e...
Stand-alone NetBeans-compatible .form editor
Is there a stand-alone GUI designer that can read and write the .form files that NetBeans (Matisse) generates? I like the GUI designer, but I don't want all the overhead of a complete Java IDE just to create and edit .form XML files. ...
What language would people recommend as simple GUI that can be used as input to a script runing on Cygwin?
I need a simple window with three input boxes and three labels (login name, password, and server node) and a button to execute the script. I do not want any third party programs that need to be installed on Windows. If it can be installed on Cygwin that would be great. ...
.NET C# - Form versus Designer code files for Event Wiring
I was just curious how others work with this kind of WinForm code in C#. Lets say I have a Form lets call it Form1. And I have a DataGridView called dgvMain. Where do you put the code: this.dgvMain.CellEndEdit += new DataGridViewCellEventHandler(dgvMain_CellEndEdit); Do you put it in the Form1 code or the Form1 designer code? Shoul...
Creating a GUI interface
Hi Guys, I've an idea of creating a GUI to give the user the opportunity to select some controls (textbox, gridview, labels, etc) and place it in a pallet/panel/window creating a view of the controls, that, pressing Save, it will save the X, Y, W and H of all controls (including the pallet/panel/window itself) to an XML (for later show ...
Do you know a GUI designer for YUI or for any other rich javascript library?
The question says it all... We are shopping for a a rich javascript library and are about to choose YUI. The issue of (non)existence of a GUI designer will strongly influence our choice. ...
Handcode GUI or use gui-designer tool
I would like to hear some opinions on hand coding your GUIs as one typically do when using Java or Qt with C++, vs using a gui-designer tool? Examples of GUI designer tools would be MFC GUI-designer, Qt designer, Interface Builder (Apple). I used to be a fan of hand coding but from recent experience I have switched. The problem I have s...
Using C# WinForms Designer on Panel instead of Form?
Warning: I'm new to GUI building in C# (come from a long history in Java with Swing and SWT.) Using VS2008, When I create a new class, and extend System.Windows.Forms.Form, the WinForms Designer works really nicely. However; when I create a new class and extend System.Windows.Forms.Panel, the designer does not work nearly as elegantly ...
Reusing a JPanel in NetBeans GUI Designer
This is in NetBeans 6.5, Java 6. I have the following hierarchy in the NetBeans GUI Designer: JFrame JTabbedPane JPanel X <...> JPanel JButton JPanel Y <...> JButton Question: JPanel Y is identical to JPanel X, so I'd like to simply reuse JPanel X in both places, but how do I do this inside ...
What is the preferred method for creating a wxWidget application: using a GUI tool or procedurally in code?
I use wxWidgets to create test tools at work. I have always created the GUI by creating the widgets in code. I haven't tried any of the tools available that help to do this. How do other users of wxWidgets typically create their interface? If you use a tool, which tool do you use? If you use a tool, what advantages and disadvantages...
Distinguish between designer and runtime code
I have two processes which exange messages each other. Process A is a normal (i.e non-qt) program which sends messages to process B. Process B is a QT GUI application showing received messages into a text box. I created a customized widget (called ShowMessages) which inherits from QPlainTextEdit and reads messages from a pipe when a tim...
Implementing MS Access style 'relationships' GUI
I have no idea what the correct name for this UI style is. In MS Access the 'relationships' tool shows the db tables as little movable boxes that can be linked with lines. It's the same with Visio and a few audio apps - boxes that are movable, containing lines of text that can be joined together in a meaningful way. How could I create a...
Convert Java GUI Builder .form files to Source Code?
I have created a fairly substantial Java GUI application with many form windows where the settings are locked up in .form files. I am wondering is there any way to convert or refactor these .form files into real Java source code that I can modify? The GUI was created using Netbeans 6.5. ...