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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'Jigloo' is a very cool GUI designer. It is not free for commercial use however. It auto-generates code and allows for custom editing of the code it creates.
jjnguy
2008-08-27 03:10:36
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Another good GUI designer for Eclipse is Window Builder Pro. Like Jigloo, it's not free for commercial use.
It allows you to design user interfaces for Swing, SWT and even the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
David Crow
2008-08-27 06:51:59
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Visual Editor is a good choice.
It generates very clean code, with no "layout" files beside of your sourcen using a simple but convenient pattern. It's very easy to patch the generated code and directly see the result. There are some stability problems (some times, the preview window does not refresh anymore...), but nothing that a "clean Project" can't fix...
Laurent K
2008-08-28 10:11:18
This only works for eclipse 3.2 and not 3.3.. :-(
Milhous
2009-06-05 21:28:09
I know it doesn't answer exactly your needs, but I made it work recently with eclipse 3.4http://wiki.eclipse.org/VE/Update
Laurent K
2009-06-08 07:41:07
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I use GWTDesigner http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/ which is not free but works well. Best of all, their customer support is top notch - very responsive.
Steve Buikhuizen
2008-09-11 09:03:58
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GWT Designer is very good and allows for rapid development of GWT websites. (http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/)
Autobyte
2008-09-15 14:05:39
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The first post recommend Visual Editor, but that project is nearly dead. According to the website the last release is 2 years ago, and it doesn't support Eclipse 3.3.
Tom
2008-09-26 22:35:11
No longer true; there is now a version of Visual Editor for Eclipse 3.5/Galileo: http://wiki.eclipse.org/VE/Update
sleske
2010-09-29 09:56:04
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well check out the eclipse distro easyeclipse at EasyEclipse. it has Visual editor project already added as a plugin, so no hassles of eclipse version compatibility.Plus the eclipse help section has a tutorial on VE.
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Hi,
Look at my plugin for developing swing application. It is as easy as that of netbeans': http://code.google.com/p/visualswing4eclipse/
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It's not free or open source. But you can give Intellij Idea's SWING GUI designer a try.
Pablo Santa Cruz
2010-03-12 11:11:04
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visualswing4eclipse looks good but the eclipse update URL didn't work for me (I raised ticket 137)
I was only able to install a previous version. Here's a url in case anyone wants it: http://visualswing4eclipse.googlecode.com/svn-history/r858/trunk/org.dyno.visual.swing.site/site.xml
The plugin actually looks very good.
mattburns
2010-03-16 12:14:59
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Here is a quite good but old comparison http://wiki.computerwoche.de/doku.php/programmierung/gui-builder_fuer_eclipse Window Builder Pro is now free at Google Web Toolkit
Markus
2010-09-28 09:31:29
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Window Builder Pro is a great GUI Designer for eclipse and is now offered for free by google:
jumar
2010-09-28 19:12:29
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But how is Windows Builder Pro compared to visualswing4eclipse .Which one is better?
mradu
2010-10-06 21:05:16