[Irfani, Mohammed S.]

🙂 Swing support

[Riyad Kalla]

special,
MyEclipse is a J2EE development environment, Swing is for client-based UIs… definately two different worlds.

The good news for you is that there is entire team dedicated to developing a GUI development plugin for Eclipse that currently supports Swing and will fully support Swing AND SWT when Eclipse 3.0 comes out.

Its called the Visual Editor Plugin (great name hu?) and can be found here:
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/

[java-consulting]

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An excellent and inexpensive product that integrates well with Eclipse.

[Marcus Beyer]

@support-rkalla wrote:

The good news for you is that there is entire team dedicated to developing a GUI development plugin for Eclipse that currently supports Swing and will fully support Swing AND SWT when Eclipse 3.0 comes out.

Its called the Visual Editor Plugin (great name hu?) and can be found here:
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/

I already use VE for all my Swing GUIs. Nice tool 😀

Only cons:

– Its support for newest (1.4) Swing features is still quite basic. JSpinner+JFormattedTextField have to be inserted by a “Choose Bean” dialog etc.

– JOptionPanes are not yet really treated as Containers. Only String is allowed as content. This can be ignored by adding components using the keyboard 🙂

– No real support for Toolbar-Separators. You can use this simple bean as a workaround (insert it using “Choose Bean”):

import javax.swing.JToolBar;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
/**
 * Fixes the weird default orientation (from horizontal to vertical). 
 * This bean is useful for the Eclipse Visual Editor.
 */
public class VerticalJToolBarSeparator extends JToolBar.Separator
{
    public VerticalJToolBarSeparator()
    {
        setOrientation(SwingConstants.VERTICAL);
    }
}

Marcus

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