Matt Gerrans
Posts: 1153
Nickname: matt
Registered: Feb, 2002
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Re: Is there a Visual GUI editor ?
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Posted: Apr 30, 2004 4:34 PM
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I think NetBeans and Forte are now synonymous, aren't they?
As far as ease of use goes, I haven't seen any Java GUI tools that are as easy as VB for this kind of thing. And Visual Studio .Net is even better the old VB was, plus you get the benefit of writing the code in C# (although VB is still an option, if you don't have the good sense to learn something better).
Of couse, VS.Net is not quite as good as Borland C++ Builder, from which it seems to have "innovated" many ideas. Then again, C++ Builder was based on Delphi, which, it seems to me, still remains unsurpassed in this category. I never did like Pascal all that well, though.
Oh, you were asking about Java GUI builders! I must say that I was disappointed with JBuilder, probably mostly because I had very high expectations after using Borland C++ Builder and Delphi for many years. I haven't been too impressed by NetBeans in this regard and haven't tried IntelliJ's offering (the latter is really nice for code editing, though).
I must admit that I've not done a lot of GUI work with Java (but plenty with C, VB, Delphi, C++ and now C#). I'd like to hear some more comments from people who have used VB, C++ Builder or Delphi compared to some of the Java IDEs for building GUIs.
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