[news.eclipse.tools.ve] Re: Visual Swing Designer for Eclipse - the new

["Michele Puccini" <mik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marty,
Hi Norbert,

many thanks for the reviews. VSD seems to be kind-of-"fresh" at the moment.

I also found Jigloo gui builder (http://www.cloudgarden.com/jigloo/).
I tried it some time ago and it was too much early stage to be useful.

Not it seems to be quite stable and feature-rich (support for MigLayout). I 
tried it, but I'm looking around before switching to a new VE. It would be 
interesting to know your opinion.

Cheers,

Mik
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"Marty Fried" <public.forums@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio 
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> Michele Puccini wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>
>> I found an interesting alternative to VE.
>> Did anyone test it ?
>
>> http://code.google.com/p/visualswing4eclipse/
>
>> Cheers,
>
>> Mik
>>
>
> Thanks for the link...  I tried it out, but removed it fairly soon after 
> because it seems to be missing some required (for me, anyway) 
> functionality.
>
> For me, I lost the "Java Beans" view, which I use a lot during visual 
> design.  I could not live without it.  Aside from the convenience of 
> adding components using this view, I have one app with a card layout, and 
> without this view, I see no way to get to any panels that are not on the 
> top.
>
> Also, I found that you can't lay out a panel outside the frame for later 
> insertion into the frame, which is sometimes handy.
>
> I also miss the split or tabbed window for source/design mode.
>
> I've been using VE 1.4, and have been fairly happy with it, although I'm 
> somewhat of a beginner to java.  I'm taking a class, so my needs might not 
> be realistic, although I've been doing GUI programming for over 15 years 
> using C/C++.
>
> Marty Fried
> Left Coast, USA
>
>