Comments on: Designing GUI with pleasure: live demo

By: J9

J9 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:41:53 +0000

Oops. Sorry I’ve been using old beta…
So I’d like to answer my own questions
1. It’s possible now to mark any control to by custom created, so I could create my table by hand and layout it automatically.
2. It’s possible to configure GUI module to show generated code ($$$setupUI$$$)
3. GUI Snapshot works for me, but the way it’s implemented a little bit strange to me (I have to run an application, so there is no parser from code, but rather reflection?)

A) Is it possible to make a form configuration there ALL components could be a “custom create”??? I mean separate the creation and the layout???

B) Is it possible to make the form class as a Component (JPanel) instead of creating the panel inside it (So the form class will be a component itself and I could add it in any place in my program)

C) If I have ScrollPane in “custom create” mode and then JTable also in “custom mode” there is a setViewport() method for the ScrollPane, but I already pass my JTable while creating it (just a doubt).

D) For GridBagLayout constraint created every time for any component??? (Not sure for the latest beta).

The only thing left is to buy a licence… We have a big war between a Netbeans and IDEA and the main issue is a GUI creator…

Kind Regards.

By: J9

J9 — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:52:49 +0000

One thing I did’n get is how to plug my own model to a component.
Should I do it after a component being created?
I mean a usual JTable table = new JTable(myModel);
will look like
JTable table = new JTable();
…
table.setModel(myModel)???

Maybe I’m asking too much…
I mean I coundn’t see ANY generated code… without the jad.
Is there a way (plans) to make the generated code editable?
As I understand there will be a feature to generate a form from a
class so anyway you will have some parser, so why not to give me the two way editor ($$$setupUI$$$ form)?

Thank you for your great IDE

By: James Head

James Head — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:08:13 +0000

Holy crap that was sweet. Just downloaded the EAP and played around with it. Very very impressive. Still getting my head around the custom form object idea creates (my first reaction would be, - why can’t I just have .java files? but I imagine that just shows i’m a n00b).

By: Alexandra Rusina

Alexandra Rusina — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:45:46 +0000

We are planning a demo about our EJB support, but I can’t tell any exact dates yet.

By: t800t8

t800t8 — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:01:24 +0000

Really nice demo. Now I’m waiting for JavaEE demo

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:09:55 +0000

Looks cool, but can’t help myself, it looks so damn like Matisse…
Would IDEA be able to read th forms files of Matisse - or the other way around???

Greetz
J..e

P.S.: I’m not a regular IDEA user and btw. I’m not using any IDE on a regular base, but always the one which fullfils my needs at most for the current purpose, so it’s just an unprepossessed question.

By: Dmitry Jemerov

Dmitry Jemerov — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:13:59 +0000

Hello John,

Thank you for your support!
In fact, Eclipse VE stores form definitions only as source code, so the request to support VE would basically mean “support for loading a GUI form from an arbitrary Java class”. This a major new feature, and it’s planned for the next version of IntelliJ IDEA after 6.0.

By: John Childress

John Childress — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:42:28 +0000

Wow, I’ve been an IDEA user for a few years now and totally it. I tried the GUI Designer when it first came out, but wasn’t very impressed.

For the past few years I’ve actually been using Eclipse’s Visual Editor for all of my Swing work; all of my team mates use it as well. I hate using two tools for work, but the Eclipse VE works fine for us, a little slow, but otherwise nice.

I watched/worked the demo on Javalobby and was really blow away by the features. The experience was just like IDEA’s editor, awesome… My only “problem” is that my team still uses Eclipse. I can open the generated java files in Eclipse, but I can’t “use” them in the Visual Editor. As much as I wish they would all switch to IDEA, they most likely aren’t.

Is it too much to ask for some kind of “support” between Eclipse’s VE and IDEA’s GUI Designer? Or will this just result in an undending list of “support my visual designer as well” requests?

Anyway, awesome demo.

John