4

Today I tried to install visual editor and every link I found lead or to 404 page or to http://www.eclipse.org/archived/ which tells that it was archived in the previous month. Are there any update site left I can use to install visual editor? I am just not happy to download 400+ megabytes to install visual editor offline.

michael nesterenko
  • 14,222
  • 25
  • 114
  • 182
  • 1
    Why don't you use [WindowBuilder Pro](http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/javadevtools/wbpro/quick_start.html)? – Kai Jul 15 '11 at 09:35
  • 1
    see also see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/564156/visual-swing-in-eclipse – Tim Abell Jul 18 '12 at 20:03

3 Answers3

10

I believe Visual Editor is deprecated.

Instead, you should probably install WindowBuilder which is available either as a plug-in or as part of the official Eclipse 3.7 Indigo release for Java developers.

My impression is that WindowBuilder is a very good GUI-building tool and will be the main GUI editor for Eclipse in the future.

mikera
  • 105,238
  • 25
  • 256
  • 415
3

I don't suggest using the Visual Editor project - it is not updated/developed any more. If you need a visual editor for Eclipse, I suggest using WindowBuilder.

Zoltán Ujhelyi
  • 13,788
  • 2
  • 32
  • 37
2

You can try this site : http://wiki.eclipse.org/VE/Installing There is all you need to install Visual Editor.

lookfire
  • 328
  • 1
  • 4
  • 10