Questions tagged [gui-designer]
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Best GUI designer for eclipse?
I'm looking for a good GUI designer for swing in eclipse. My preference is for a free/open-source plugin.

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How to tell if .NET code is being run by Visual Studio designer
I am getting some errors thrown in my code when I open a Windows Forms form in Visual Studio's designer. I would like to branch in my code and perform a different initialization if the form is being opened by designer than if it is being run for…

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ADT 22.3 (android 4.4) - getting error "After scene creation, #init() must be called"
After installing the new ADT (22.3.0.v201310242005-887826) which supports Android 4.4 (KitKat), I keep getting the error as shown here:
An internal error has occurred
In the list of errors, I see multiple items of "RenderPreview", and when I…

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Good Way to Debug Visual Studio Designer Errors
Is there a good way to debug errors in the Visual Studio Designer?
In our project we have tons of UserControls and many complex forms. For the complex ones, the Designer often throws various exceptions which doesn't help much, and I was wondering if…

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Go IDE With GUI Design Support
I was taking a look on Go language, but I want to know if there is any IDE developed only for it, but that have a GUI design feature, as Visual Studio and Netbeans.

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IntelliJ idea gui designer + maven
I have a project created with help of GUI designer.
Here is code of main form.
public class MainForm {
MainForm() {
directLineOkButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
…

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Design View of a DataTemplate in a ResourceDictionary in Visual Studio
Is there a way to preview GUI in a DataTemplate? e.g. if I have a Resource Dictionary, containing a DataTemplate, and the Data template contains GUI code, like
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Handcode GUI or use gui-designer tool
I would like to hear some opinions on hand coding your GUIs as one typically do when using Java or Qt with C++, vs using a gui-designer tool? Examples of GUI designer tools would be MFC GUI-designer, Qt designer, Interface Builder (Apple).
I used to…

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Is WindowBuilder Pro already installed in Eclipse?
At this page: https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/download-wbpro, there is no option to install WindowBuilder Pro to Eclipse Juno (4.2).
Is WindowBuilder Pro already installed with Eclipse Juno?
Also, is there a better free alternative to…

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Which is the best GUI designer for GTK apps?
I want a visual GUI designer that will produce XML output in the format used by GtkBuilder. Glade seems to be the most powerful, although Gazpacho is more lightweight. Stetic (included with MonoDevelop) seems to be good but I don't believe it…

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Should a programmer design User Interfaces?
Programmers often serves as a designer of user interfaces. You could argue whether it is good or not. However, especially in small companies, it is a reality that does not change.
What do you think personally as a programmer, is it our work to…

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Convert Java GUI Builder .form files to Source Code?
I have created a fairly substantial Java GUI application with many form windows where the settings are locked up in .form files. I am wondering is there any way to convert or refactor these .form files into real Java source code that I can…

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Windows API gui designer?
Is there a good GUI designer (read: drag 'n drop/WYSIWYG) for the plain old Windows API? I'm not looking for something that uses Qt, GTK, .NET, etc, just plain old Windows API.
Must be usable with either C or C++.

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Reusing a JPanel in NetBeans GUI Designer
This is in NetBeans 6.5, Java 6.
I have the following hierarchy in the NetBeans GUI Designer:
JFrame
JTabbedPane
JPanel X
<...>
JPanel
JButton
JPanel Y
<...>
JButton
Question:
JPanel Y is identical to…

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GUI designer for managing Django models
Is there a GUI tool using which I can design new Django models graphically? For example, drawing lines between fields in different models to indicate a foreign key.
Modifying existing models graphically would also be nice.

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