Re: Off-Topic - What GUI designer?
Re: Off-Topic - What GUI designer?
- Subject: Re: Off-Topic - What GUI designer?
- From: Florijan Stamenkovic <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:22:09 +0200
Hi Giles,
We are doing exactly the same thing (WO + raw Swing). I am using
JFormDesigner for some year and a half now, or so, and I have nothing
but high praises for it. During that time I have been keeping up with
Swing GUI designers, but did not find a better one. I can not say
anything about the Eclipse plugin, except that there is one. I will
check it out (since the current WO situation is pushing towards
Eclipse anyhow). My current IDE setup is: XCode + EOModeler +
JFormDesigner + JProfiler. Btw, you can download the plugin from the
JFD site, ask for a trial license, and try it out yourself as well.
I never really understood why JFormDesigner is not widely used. My
best guess is that it's coz it is made by a small company (1 person
AFAIK) and not advertised much. Be assured however, it is not because
of it's quality. And from what I have seen, before Matisse (NetBeans)
JFD had no real competition for WYSIWYG Swing GUI design.
I have not found any better solution, and I do try to keep on top of
new devs. If you do, please let me know.
The cost for JFD is reasonable, and it WILL become an invaluable tool
in your devbox.
Cheers,
Flor
Apologies for this off-topic post but I think you guys are going to
be as qualified as anyone to answer.
We have a mature WO client application with a swing gui, running on
both PC and Mac. To date the gui layer has been built with an old
and buggy free version of JBuilder in OSX. Having tried and failed
to use the upgrades of JBuilder we are looking elsewhere.
Developing with Eclipse and WOLips we would love an Eclipse swing
gui builder plugin compatible with OSX. I understand there have
been problems in the past achieving this but that was a while ago.
Failing that is there a stable standalone gui builder you all use
on OSX? One option we have looked at that seems interesting is
JFormDesigner as a standalone but it doesn't seem too widely used.
In terms of cost open source or v.low cost is required!
What's the smart choice for OSX?
Regards
Giles
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