Moving from Eclipse Window Builder to IntelliJ
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Hello everyone,
My team and I are studying the opportunity of switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ. However, we had a great use of Eclipse's Window Builder, and so we have several dialogs which have been directly created by it. As far as I was able to test with IntelliJ, I couldn't find the way to convert/migrate/edit the existing dialog code so we can visually edit it in IntelliJ.
Is there a "good way" to do that other than rebuilding the dialogs from scratch?
Sincerely,
Nickauhla.
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Hello Nickauhla,
You could use "Form Snapshot" feature: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-and-opening-forms.html
Hello,
Thanks for the hint.
Each time I try to follow the procedure and use form snapshot, it detects that the application isn't running (even if it was running). If I click on "yes" to run it, then I open a GUi and try to capture, I get the following error : "Failed to establish form snapshot connection to running application".
We have similar issue on YouTrack: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-145264
Could you please attach idea.log ("Help | Show Log in...") to that issue after restarting IDE and reproducing the problem?
I just did :)
Thanks!
Hello,
Have you got any news on this subject?
That's pretty blocking for us as most of our application is designed through Eclipse builder. It would really make us reconsidering our migration to IntelliJ (i.e.: not migrating).
No updates at the moment, I've increased the issue priority.
Is there any updates on this?
Not that I know...
Unfortunately, there are no updates yet. We are concentrated on fixing problems related to other subsystems.
To speed up resolving of this issue, please, vote for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-145264
If you are not familiar with YouTrack, see this instruction: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241135-How-to-follow-YouTrack-issues-and-receive-notifications