Java Swing Drag-n-Drop App anyone?

mikoignacio · Jan 5, 2009

fellow MUGgers!

do any of you know of an app that can do as such? like for simple swing components such as JFrames and such?

thanks

lamski · Jan 5, 2009

I found this tutorial from the official java website about drag and drop.
Hope this helps.

mikoignacio · Jan 5, 2009

what I mean is... an app where you can create a swing GUI by dragging and dropping elements, then generates the proper code for it. I've tried NetBeans, however it's Swing libraries are too advanced for other, more basic compilers.

bacchus_3 · Jan 5, 2009

NetBeans would be your go-to IDE. What do you mean the libraries are too advanced for basic compilers? Java uses only a single compiler - and isn't it that there is only one SWING library?

lamski · Jan 6, 2009

Sorry 'bout the mixup there hehehe.
I agree with bacchus - Netbeans has the easiest swing GUI builder out there. Its very similar to XCode's interface builder.
Regarding the basic compiler maybe you mean compiling it to a lower java version? I got this from the netbeans GUI building tutorial pages:

Deploying GUI Applications

In order for the interfaces you create with the GUI Builder to work outside of the IDE, the application must be compiled against classes for the GroupLayout layout manager and also have those classes available at runtime. These classes are included in Java SE 6, but not in Java SE 5. If you develop the application to run on Java SE 5, your application needs to use the Swing Layout Extensions library.
If you are running the IDE on JDK 5, the IDE automatically generates your application code to use the Swing Layout Extensions library. When you deploy the application, you need to include the Swing Layout Extensions library with the application. When you build the application (Build > Build Main Project), the IDE automatically provides a copy of the library's JAR file in the application's dist/lib folder. The IDE also adds each of the JAR files that are in the dist/lib folder to the Class-Path element in the application JAR file's manifest.mf file.
If you are running the IDE on JDK 6, the IDE generates your application code to use the GroupLayout classes that are in Java SE 6. This means that you can deploy the application to run on systems with Java SE 6 installed and you do not need to package your application with the Swing Layout Extensions library.

Note: If you create your application using JDK 6 but you need the application to also run on Java SE 5, you can have the IDE generate its code to use the Swing Layout Extensions library instead of the classes in Java SE 6. Open the ContactEditorUI class in the GUI Editor. In the Inspector, expand the ContactEditorUI node and choose Form ContactEditorUI. In the Properties window, change the value of the Layout Generation Style property to Swing Layout Extensions Library.
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mikoignacio · Jan 6, 2009

thanks for the replies bacchus_3 and Iamski. changing the layout generation style did the trick

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