BTW I was using Forte for a while and though I didn't liked the visual formatting tool I was facinated with the "structure" box. It shows you the containment hierarchy of all the Swing components. It's makes the quite easy to understand what exactly you are looking at. May be something like this could be added in the next version of Idea (when the open API is released)? -dimiter
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Thomas Singer > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 3:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Eap-list] OFFTOPIC: Swing GUI design > > > > > > So I wonder if there is a good > > > Swing GUI designer (that does not have the overhead of a > > > full blown IDE) > > > that could be used together with IDEA, i.e. IDEA for coding > > > and the other > > > tool for GUI editing like in JBuilder. > > > >as far as I know, there exists no usable Swing-Builder. The only way > >to produce good, clean and fast Swing code is to code by hand. And if > >you know what you're doing you're even faster than anyone using a > >graphical builder. > > I agree totally with you. GUI-builders are something for > novices. I would > like IntelliJ to concentrate on things, that other IDE's > don't have, like > smooth refactoring and things (smart code-completion...), that really > decrease the time-to-market. > > Best regards, > Thomas Singer > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
