Best Gui Designer for Eclipse

Best GUI designer for eclipse?

Window Builder Pro is a great GUI Designer for eclipse and is now offered for free by google.

What's the best GUI designer for use with Eclipse?

Actually, the next "Visual Editor" is still in the making, with e4:

See Getting started with e4 Application using Visual Designer (also in the Eclipse wiki)

Combined with the XWT designer, you get a WYSIWYG editor for XWT, a tool like VE of eclipse, but with a completely different architecture.

XWT Designer relies on XML, instead of Java in VE. And also it doesn’t have two JVMs as VE

The XWT being a declarative approach to GUI, an full fledge Visual Editor won't be needed at all time. A simple text editor can be enough at first.

what eclipse GUI builder plugin do you suggest

MyEclipse IDE comes with a nice GUI builder Matisse4MyEclipse ("borrowed" from NetBeans IIRC). You will probably want to settle on a Java IDE as part of the decision making process since the two decisions tend to be closely related.

Instantiations is also another solid choice I have used, though a bit more expensive. CodeGear apparently likes this tool as well since it has been selected for inclusion in their JBuilder product lineup (which is now based on Eclipse).

Another option you should not overlook is Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Depending on who you ask it is either wonderful or evil since it competes with Swing and makes use of Native OS widgets (SWT). This is the technology behind Eclipse itself and may be a good choice if you like the Eclipse look and feel or are building a tooling platform.

FWIW I have used MyEclipse tooling extensively since about 2004 and am happy with the quality and very reasonable price. Please keep in mind that YMMV since everyone has different preferences and requirements.

What is the best and free Visual Editor that can be used in Eclipse to create GUI?

WindowBuilder from Google.

I am looking for GUI editor plug-in for eclipse

WindowBuilder best gui designer and it's free from Google.
Also you can observer answers for similar question on stackoverflow.

What is the easiest way to design Java Swing GUIs in Eclipse IDE?

Since Google aquired Instantiations and then donated WindowBuilder to Eclipse foundation it is the preferred free, open source visual GUI editor for Swing, SWT and GWT.

Eclipse Window Builder VS Netbeans GUI Builder

Im using NetBeans since 6.x and never had such problems. Resizing components, adding some new, even working on the generated code etc. is realy easy and had no problem so far. Moreover NB has a visual debugger and an improved GridBagLayout customizer (both since 7.1).

Didn't use Eclipse Windowbuilder so far, but i guess its capable too. Everyone has it's own criteria for a gui builder. Btw. the author of this article seem very eclipse-focused ("on the best IDE out there - eclipse")

I'm sorry i cant give you an answer like "pro / cons of A, pro / cons of B" - as i said i've never used Eclipse Windowbuilder before. And for me there's no need to do so, i can build a gui with netbeans without problems / very easy / fast (even better than with Visual Studio). For my point of view everything works like i want it :-)

If you used both, maybe there are things you prefer or dislike on one IDE, but the other can do better.

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