Questions tagged [gui-designer]

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How do GUI builders work?

I'm curious, how does a GUI builder/designer work? My guess ( for Java ), is that it actually creates a JFrame and overrides the events in some way. However, this is only a guess. Can you offer some insight?
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ExtJs UI Designer tool

Is there a designer tool for ExtJs or Eclipse plugin for it? I'm developing an interface which is completely similar to desktop environment. http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.7-gpl/examples/desktop/desktop.html Now I'm modifying the above demo.…
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Ext-Gwt gui designer

guys! I am very interested with ext gwt. Do you know any darg and drop designers for this framework? Does ext gwt work with ext designer? Thanks
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Is it sane to start a Blackberry Java project without using the recommended IDE i.e. Eclipse?

Considering that I'll be using Vim as my text editor of choice, what tools do I have to consider to manage and build a project of this magnitude? I'm told that Apache Ant is similar to GNU Make so that part is covered so far. But what about UI…
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Integrating a custom gui framework with the VS designer

Imagine you homebrew a custom gui framework that doesn't use windows handles (compact framework, so please don't argue with "whys"). One of the main disadvantages of developing such a framework is that you lose compatability with the winform…
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Java swing doesn't show changes to source

I'm using Java Swing graphical editor with netbeans to make my project...but using it brings some limitations like I can't add to a jpanel an image,using java swing options. So i'll need to code it, implementing a new jPanel. My problem is that the…
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MonoDevelop editor GUI designer

I just downloaded the MonoDevelop source code from their website. Now I want to change some of the GUI elements of the IDE. After a bit of research I found out that monodevelop's gui is made with GTK#. But I can't find a visual designer to open the…
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Adding JComponent to JPanel at runtime with IntelliJ GUI Designer

I have initialized my own JPanel inside the GUI Designer's JPanel but I still can't seem to add this JTextField to my newly created JPanel when the button is clicked. I am getting no errors, have tried revalidating, validating, repainting and more. …
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C++ bindings to jGoodies?

Thus far the best C++ UI libraries I've run into are Qt, GTK, and wxWidgets; Are there existing libraries similar to jGoodies or 'better'. I am interested in mature (yet simple) technologies.
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Swing Generator

I need to develop some java gui using swing. A few years ago I did develop a bit with swing. But it was pretty exhausting, you see, back than there weren't much tools to help you. But I do believe today it should be easier, there must be tools. I…
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GUI designer for Qt

I want to ask if there are any good GUI designers for Qt that work with PySide beside QtCreator because it's huge. But I think that every will work with PySide, as it don't have to generate python3 code but just .ui file.
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JToolbar not displaying background color

my JToolbar is not displaying the background color even after I set the it from the Netbeans GUI Designer. The code to set the background color is even included in the autogenerated code. What could be wrong?
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Swing designer plugin for Eclipse

I am looking for best swing editor rite now I was looking for eclipse plugin that is Swing Plugin. Are there any other plugins for designing Swing apps. that can be installed in Eclipse, and will also generate the code?
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WPF Designer - Selecting element inside element

I am new to WPF so I would accept every piece of advice. My problem: I use the Designer to put different components of the UI the way I like. And it's great. The problem came with this type of XAML structure:
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WPF Design Time Error w/ Local Namespace Reference

I'm having an issue with the WPF Designer. At some point I did something that broke all of my controls that reference the local assembly. The application builds and runs just fine, but the VS Designer throws errors every time that a local resource…
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