GUI builder

Nothing wrong with that, but it is desirable to see the result instantly without the need to run the app.

Here is another library for building UIs from XML:

http://uikit.sourceforge.net

The version you will find there is fairly out of date and doesn't support Swing, but I have a completely rewritten/updated version almost ready for release. It is fast, very lightweight, and (of course) open source. I've also redesigned the XML syntax to be much more general and powerful.

Peter

Check out http://www.bluette.com/eng/index.htm

Realy cool GUI builder.
Just to bad that the project i closed :(

I don't know why jbuilder is so slow. Like most large software projects, as you continually add features the application starts to slow. Even with lazy initialization other classes have to change to support new features. Even if you do not istantiate the classes they will sometimes get loaded into memory because of references to them which can also slow down apps. I'm not saying that a gui builder would do this, but being a developer on several swing projects for a number of years has taught me that I want nothing to do with a gui builder. Building gui's isn't that hard and IMHO should be done by hand.

Where? All I see is a rather crappy VC++ like interface. No GUI builder
in sight.

Thomas wrote:

Check out http://www.bluette.com/eng/index.htm

Realy cool GUI builder.
Just to bad that the project i closed :(

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"charles decroes" <charles@decroes.com> wrote:
...

Building gui's isn't that hard and IMHO should be done by hand.

Until recently, I would have said the same about refactoring... :)

Vil.
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