On Jul 25, 2:22 am, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > incredibly quickly (I can re-create the jFlubber GUI in under 5 > minutes, something I absolutely could not do with any kind of code > based approach). Matisse is obviously a bit of an evolutionary dead- > end now with JavaFX in the picture, but I appreciate environments that > give me this kind of GUI constructor kit (like FlexBuilder for > example) and get me back to the stuff that I am really interested in > writing.
The ability to quickly create a simple gui for an app was what sold me on Netbeans 5.0. One place I was working wanted to create an application, and wanted a proof-of-concept up and running quickly. It was probably less than two hours from not having used netbeans before to having a prototype running with dummy data that had a real gui on it. Sure, hand coding the UI would have probably produced technically nicer code, and have been a better gui, but there is no way I could have done it in the same time frame. On the other hand, if you are hand-coding your UI, then MigLayout seems to be the only sane one out there. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
