They have to be installed onto each PC to use them. Only then was Eclipse ready to develop applications known as ‘fat clients’.įat clients are applications such as Word or Powerpoint. The developer wishing to use Swing first had to download the required Eclipse Visual Editor Project as well as the related Eclipse Modeling Project (EMP) and Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) plugins. In the old days, circa 2003 or so, setting up Eclipse so that it was ready for developing Swing applications was a bit of a pain. I’ve installed WindowBuilder, an Eclipse IDE plugin for Java GUI development, in order to try to help me make some modifications to the GUI design of OpticalRayTracer.This post shows how to install the Swing/SWT GUI development tool to create applications to be deployed directly onto PCs. There were a couple confusing things about getting it going so I’m capturing some details of the process here. There is a section for WindowBuilder on the Eclipse user forums. The original proposal for WindowBuilder is also available to read.įirst, I am running Eclipse 3.8.1 (Juno) on Ubuntu 16.05 (Xenial Xerus). The following URL is pasted into the Work with: text entry box: Next, I installed WindowBuilder via the built in Eclipse software install utility, following the instructions at this page. I initially tried to install the SWT Designer as well, but I got a dependency error and it was the cause, so I then omitted it. Once WindowBuilder is installed, it is invoked by right clicking on a given file and selecting Open With > WindowBuilder Editor. This opens an editor window which is very similar to the usual one, but there is a Design tab at the bottom which will provide the desired graphical editor view.JFormDesigner is a professional GUI designer for Java Swing user interfaces. Its outstanding support for MigLayout, JGoodies FormLayout, GroupLayout ( Free Design), TableLayout and GridBagLayout makes it easy to create professional looking forms. Easy and intuitive to use, powerful and productive: JFormDesigner provides an easy-to-use but powerful user interface.MigLayout support: MigLayout is a superbly versatile and powerful open-source layout manager.Įven non-programmers can use it, which makes it also ideal for prototyping.It is grid-based, but also supports docking and grouping. GroupLayout support brings the " Free Design" paradigm to JFormDesigner (as in NetBeans GUI Builder formerly Project Matisse).You can lay out your forms by simply placing components where you want them.
Visual guidelines suggest optimal spacing, alignment and resizing of components. This makes it easy to design professional-looking GUIs.
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