Open Source Java GUI Designer
By admin on Dec 15, 2010 in Java, open source
WindowBuilder Pro (also known as just WindowBuilder) is a powerful and easy to use bi-directional Java GUI designer. It is composed of SWT Designer, Swing Designer and GWT Designer and makes it very easy to create Java GUI applications without spending a lot of time writing code to display simple forms. With WindowBuilder Pro you can create complicated windows in minutes. Use the visual designer and Java code will be generated for you. You can easily add controls using drag-and-drop, add event handlers to your controls, change various properties of controls using a property editor, internationalize your app and much more.
WindowBuilder Pro is built as a plug-in to Eclipseand the various Eclipse-based IDEs (RAD, RSA, MyEclipse, JBuilder, etc.). The plug-in builds an abstract syntax tree (AST) to navigate the source code and uses GEF to display and manage the visual presentation.
Using WYSIWYG layout tools, you don’t need to write any lines of java code – the code will be generated for you by WindowBuilder Pro. You can easily add any component to a container by using drag-and-drop, add an event handler to your controls, change various properties of controls using property editors and much more. Generated code doesn’t require any additional custom libraries to compile and run: all of the generated code can be used without having WindowBuilder Pro installed. WindowBuilder Pro can read and write almost any format and reverse-engineer most hand-written Java GUI code. It also supports free form code editing (make changes anywhere…not just in special areas) and most user refactorings (you can move, rename and subdivide methods without a problem).
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