Please forgive if this question has been asked numerous times. I recently installed Eclipse Classic v3.6.0 which I need to create a little utility using Java. In Visual Studio I can create a new form then from the Toolbar I can drag and drop components (Button, TextBox, ListBox, etc) onto the Form. Is this possible using Eclipse?
I have tried various (see below for a few examples) combination using both Stack Overflow and Google, but nothing that I have seen that discusses this topic. I have read that there are plug-ins for Eclipse and was thinking there might be a plug-in for this type of behavior? I am not sure if this feature is supported out of the box. Any help is greatly appreciated.
“eclipse form drag drop”
“using eclipse drag and drop form creation”
I have also found the following links that show examples for creating Form using SWT, but these are more of snippets. These are great if I want to generate the file myself, but I would like the IDE to most of that work (since I am lazy).
SWT Snippets
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
SWT GridLayout
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/SWT-JFace-Eclipse/SWTGridLayout.htm
SWT JFace Eclipse
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/SWT-JFace-Eclipse/CatalogSWT-JFace-Eclipse.htm
Thanks,
Mark
Instantiations SWT Designer is probably your best bet.