Plugin details
SWT/Swing Designer
plugin-homepage | report-update | rating (8.08 #83) / rate-it | comments (139)Versions 5.0 supports Eclipse 2.1, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2M5
SWT/Swing Designer is a powerful and easy to use two-way Java GUI designer that supports both Eclipse SWT and Sun Swing technology. It is very easy to create Java GUI applications without spending a lot of time writing code to display simple forms. With Designer 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 and much more.
Free, non-commercial and academic versions available!
Major new v4.0.0 release includes support for JGoodes FormLayout, SWT_AWT support, SWT Spinner, Link, TreeColumn, TreeItem & TableItem support, enhanced keyboard navigation, custom swing properties & editors, better custom widget support, code hiding, improved SWT FormLayout support, Eclipse 3.1 M6 support plus many other new features.
Features
- o Basic Features
- - WYSIWYG Editing
- - Graphical Menu Editing
- - Create Nested Composites & Panels
- - Cut / Copy / Paste
- - Multi-Level Undo & Redo
- - Instant Test Button
- - Change Z-Order via Drag & Drop
- - No Special Libraries Required
- - Zero Runtime Overhead
- - Seamless Eclipse Integration
- - Eclipse-Based Help
- - Control Editor Layout
- o Advanced Features
- - Reverse engineer hand-written code
- - Supports user code refactoring
- - Free-form code editing
- - Intelligent Layout Assist
- - Create & Use Custom Composites & Panels
- - Define Custom Widget Templates
- - Widget Morphing
- - Graphical Table & Toolbar Editing
- - Multi-Widget Select & Edit
- - Populate Custom Control Palette
- o Code Generation Features
- - Bi-Directional Code Generation
- - Read & write almost any style
- - Block mode & Flat mode
- - Prefix component creation
- - Share variables
- - Control variable declaration
- - Create event handler stubs
- - Define default variable names
- - Make selected widgets fields by default
- - Make all widgets fields by default
- - Internationalization tools & wizards o Supported Platforms
- - Windows - Linux/GTK - Mac (limited, SWT o?nly) SWT Features -----------------------
- o Basic Features
- - Supports All SWT Widgets
- - SWT Application Wizard
- - SWT Project Wizard
- o Advanced Features
- - Dynamic FormLayout Snap Points
- - Extract Composite Refactoring
- - Gradient Editor for CLabels
- - Graphical support for ScrolledComposites
- - SWT Composite Wizard
- - Eclipse ViewPart Wizard
- - Eclipse PreferencePage Wizard o Full JFace Support
- - Supports all JFace viewers
- - JFace Wizard Page Wizard
- - JFace Dialog Wizard
- - JFace Application Wizard
- o Supported Layout Managers
- - Null/Absolute
- - FillLayout
- - RowLayout
- - GridLayout
- - FormLayout
- - StackLayout
- - Swing FlowLayout
- - Swing BorderLayout
- - Swing GridLayout Swing Features
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- o Basic Features
- - Supports All Swing & AWT Widgets
- - JFrame Wizard o Advanced Features -
- Graphical GridBagLayout Support -
- Create BoxLayout struts & glue -
- JDialog Wizard -
- JPanel Wizard -
- JApplet Wizards -
- JInternalFrame Wizard o
- Supported Layout Managers -
- Null/Absolute -
- FlowLayout -
- BorderLayout -
- GridLayout -
- CardLayout -
- GridBagLayout -
- BoxLayout
- It is v5.0.0 release nowII Major new WindowBuilder v5.0.0 release includes support for Swing & SWT GroupLayout, creating and editing RCP ActionBarAdvisors, configuring the palette with the new Palette Manager, enhanced Swing & SWT absolute layout support, plus many other new features.
| category: | UI | |||||||||||||||
| license: | Free and commercial versions | |||||||||||||||
| added: | Jul 30, 2003 | |||||||||||||||
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| homepage: | http://www.swt-designer.com/ | |||||||||||||||
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