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Subject: Re: Matisse is sweet
From: Milos Kleint <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:00:14 +0200
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Unfortunately Matisse has the same problems as all other GUI builder I know: - it creates components themself (I seem not to be able to use own component references, which - for example - were created by an own component factory) - it requires Java Beans (public no-arg constructors) For example, our JTable needs a model as constructor parameter, our JScrollPane needs the content component as a constructor parameter, our JTree requires a model. Of course this could be solved, but we tend to make as much fields as possible final.

I haven't tried Matisse yet, but it's based on the netbeans 4.1 GUI editor and you can definitely customize a lot. There are multiple hooks into the generated code that allow you to do almost everything..

<pre-creation-code> <variable-name> = <custom-creation-code> (Note: the custom creation code part is where you write your own constructor code) <post-creation-code>

where variable is defined also in a generated block, either locally or globally.. <modifiers> JTable <variable-name>

The only thing that cannot be changed is the class of the component dropped. Which is sometimes unfortunate when one has a subclass of a JTable with custom methods etc. But it can be workarounded with the <pre-creation> code block I think.

Regards.

Milos Kleint

If the above problems would have been solved, I would agree, Matisse
looks sweet.
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Thomas Singer
Ruffin Bailey wrote:
I did a quick search of the archives and have not seen Matisse, Netbeans' new GUI RAD, mentioned, nor have I stumbled across it when I have a chance to read the list. (I've also seen enough posts about tools I figured this is relatively on topic.)

That Matisse has apparently not been mentioned is now so a grave disservice I feel I should rectify the omission. ;^)

If you make end user GUIs, you should give the recently released alpha version of Matisse a try. I worked as a VB6 programmer for many years and .NET after that, and this is the first Java GUI builder I've seen that approaches VB6 and Windows.Forms' ease of use. Its promise really is that good.

Anyhow, for links to the Qbuild with Matisse and how to get it running on OS X, feel free to check out this post: http://myfreakinname.blogspot.com/2005/06/matisse-great-start.html

It runs very well on my iBook G4, 1.2 GHz, 1.25 Gigs RAM. Some incomplete features in there, and its ability to "infer" what you intend your GUI to do on resize is still iffy imo, but if you're using GridBagLayout for tough forms, your prayers have been answered.

Ruffin Bailey
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