--- Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan- > > Sunday, November 26, 2006, 12:21:45 PM, you wrote: > > > than ever. In spite of projects like Eclipse and > > NetBeans, there's still no IDE that makes it as > easy > > to develop applications with a rich UI the way > Visual > > Studio can. > > True, but have you seen the Jvider plugin for > Eclipse? > > http://www.jvider.com/ > > ...and then there's the RADRails plugin > > http://www.radrails.org > > -- > -Mark Wieder >
Thanks for the link to JVider - I'll look into that. I've also used Jigloo in the past, but no matter the tool, unless you use an absoluteLayout it takes quite some time to get your elements to display right where you want them on the screen. The different layout managers offered by Java either out of the box or from third parties, are very powerful indeed, but not the easiest to use when you just want to build a user interface in 5 minutes, the way you can slap buttons and fields onto a window like you can with Visual Studio or Revolution. NetBeans offers a pretty interesting GroupLayout system that allows you to link together items that need to be in certain positions related to the edge of the screen or to one another. They call this 'Free design' mode - which shows dotted lines and takes cues from Apple's Interface Builder to keep items at a reasonable distance from another (8 pixels between a textfield and its label, for instance) Neat stuff... I'm pretty well-versed in Java, but I groan every time I have to design a user interface for that well-working business model. In Rev I can design a decent-looking interface in no time - if Rev had classes for the business model, I'd be in heaven. Jan Schenkel. Quartam Reports for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
