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I am planning to write a Swing-based application (using Netbeans 6.8).
It seems that Netbeans has a very advanced GUI Editor… Still I have my doubts regarding the code generated by it. Additionally I don’t like the fact the part of the code is locked (still I understand the need).
Has anybody used Netbeans GUI Editor with success ?
Does it “scale” ?
Yes, the NetBeans GUI builder is one of the finest around. I was particularly impressed with how well it handles the infamous
GridBagLayout.Borland JBuilder was in my experience the very best round-trip GUI editor; if I remember correctly, it produced code without “locked areas” and would usually continue to work gracefully with GUI code that you had manually tweaked.
Still, I have yet to find a Java Swing GUI editor that doesn’t occasionally choke on a complex layout, i.e. enter a state where further editing is no longer feasible and/or requires some backing up or fixing.
Thus, I prefer to hand-code all my GUIs. Heinz Kabutz of JavaSpecialists tells me his GUI editor is vim. However, I admit that most of my other friends and colleagues consider me crazy for doing this.