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I'm starting development on an existing open source project that used a hand-coded GUI. Is it possible to somehow import this into Matisse, so that I can edit this project's GUI in Matisse? Or do I basically have to rebuild it from scratch in Matisse?

Cheers,
red.october

red.october
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I am not aware of a conversion. You could create smaller handcoded components (which has to be a bean) and add them to the GUI palette to create a new Matisse-based GUI.

For more info look here

Karussell
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I think this is very hard to do ( dare I say impossible? ). There are so many style of coding, that I think it would be far faster to redesign everything using Matisse, than to get some half-decent code automatically generated.

If you designed your code somewhat efficiently, you should be able to make the transition to Matisse pretty painless.

Geo
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  • I should make it clearer that this is an existing open source project developed by someone else. I'm just going to do some work on it. – red.october Nov 08 '09 at 07:27
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you can try the eclipse WindowBuilder tool, it works similarly to matisse, and reads real java code instead of form files..

Andy Dingfelder
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