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Category: Plugin Directory / UI / JFormDesigner
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Version: 4.0.7
Support Eclipse Version: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5
License: Commercial
Development Status: Production/Stable
Company: FormDev Software GmbH
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JFormDesigner is an advanced GUI designer for Swing user interfaces. It is easy and intuitive to use and provides a lot of powerful features. JFormDesigner fully supports JGoodies FormLayout, GroupLayout (Free Design), TableLayout, GridBagLayout, and other standard layout managers. The advanced GridBagLayout support allows the specification of horizontal and vertical gaps (as in TableLayout), which makes designing a form with consistent gaps using GridBagLayout much easier.
New in 4.0
- GroupLayout (Free Design) support (as in NetBeans GUI Builder; formerly Project Matisse).
- JGoodies Forms 1.2 support.
- and more...
Key Features
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Easy and intuitive to use, powerful and productive:
JFormDesigner provides an easy-to-use but powerful user interface.
Even non-programmers can use it, which makes it also ideal for prototyping.
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GroupLayout support brings
the "Free Design" paradigm to JFormDesigner (as in NetBeans GUI
Builder; formerly Project Matisse). You can lay out your forms by
simply placing components where you want them. Visual guidelines
suggest optimal spacing, alignment and resizing of components. This
makes it easy to design professional-looking GUIs.
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JGoodies FormLayout and Clearthought's TableLayout support:
These well-known open-source layout managers allow you to design high quality forms.
JFormDesigner provides excellent support for them.
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Advanced GridBagLayout support
allows the specification of horizontal and vertical gaps (as in TableLayout).
This makes it very easy to design forms with consistent gaps using GridBagLayout.
No longer wrestling with GridBagConstraints.insets.
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Column and row headers
(for grid based layout managers) show the structure of the layout
(including column/row indices, alignment, growing, grouping) and allow
you to insert or delete columns/rows and change column/row properties.
It's also possible to drag
and drop columns/rows (incl. contained
components and gaps). This allows you to swap columns or move rows in seconds.
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IDE plug-ins and stand-alone application:
JFormDesigner is available as IDE plug-ins for
Eclipse,
IntelliJ IDEA and
JBuilder and
as stand-alone application.
Plug-ins for Netbeans and JDeveloper are under development.
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Localization support:
Localizing forms using properties files has never been easier. Specify a
resource bundle name and a prefix for keys when creating a new form and
then forget about it. JFormDesigner automatically puts all strings into
the specified resource bundle (auto-externalizing).
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Java code generator or runtime library:
Either let JFormDesigner generate
Java source code for your forms (the default) or use the
open-source (BSD license) runtime library to
load JFormDesigner XML files at runtime. Your choice.
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Generation of nested classes:
The Java code generator is able to generate and update nested classes.
You can specify a class name for each component in your form.
This allows you to organize your source code in an object-oriented way.
Added on: 05-Dec-2006 | Updated: 25-Aug-2009
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Last 7 Comments
| User: Anonymous | Rating: 9 | 2009-11-12 13:15:02 | | | Great plugin for the Newbie like me. It is the atomic bomb of GUI creation, really has all the widgets/containers/etc.. you need in a WYSIWYG editor.
Install is a problem if you do a manual install. LET ECLIPSE INSTALL IT FOR YOU!!
Install is a two part process. First you buy a license (or get a trial one), which is a .txt file with your information, and an encrypted key. Get that first. I put it under my main /eclipse/ directory. Then, in Eclipse go to Help-> Software Updates. Tab to the "Available Software" tab and click the "Add Site" button. Then follow the directions and use this URL: ww dot formdev dot com slash download slash eclipse slash. Follow the directions. Then right click on one of your projects, pick "New", pick "Other" and then pick "JForm" (too lazy to get the exact wording, it is self evident though). Install a JFrame and it will prompt you for the license file. So browse to the license.txt file and you are done.
Finally, when I emailed for help, I got a quick reply.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 3 | 2009-08-15 16:20:51 | | | Could not handle simple changes made to the Java code (like NetBeans) and could not find any public support forum. Free Eclipse VE seems like a better choice.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 10 | 2008-11-06 14:26:40 | | | Very good piece of software.
You can start out of the box and
get fine results.
P. L.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 10 | 2008-10-26 21:57:29 | | | aaaaaaaaa
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 10 | 2008-10-15 06:56:25 | | | a very good soft. it is very easy to use for the newbie.
I like it.
| | User: cmattmiller | Rating: 9 | 2008-07-01 09:35:06 | | | Excellent plugin!!! Easy to install and use.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 1 | 2008-01-25 19:18:51 | | | This is a piece of junk. It doesn't install & the eclipse download instructions are incorrect.
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