Re: Off-Topic - What GUI designer?
Re: Off-Topic - What GUI designer?
- Subject: Re: Off-Topic - What GUI designer?
- From: Cedarstone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:33:43 +0100
Hi Flor
Very, very helpful. I have tried JFormDesigner and like what I see
so far. It is lightweight, quick, converts JBuilder format files and
looks to do the trick. My only worry is that it does seem to have a
small user base and is vulnerable with just one developer, that said
JBuilder is none of the above and is horrific in my experience.
Regards
Giles
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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