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Article #498Re: Seeking very user-friendly, drag-and-drop GUI design tool.
From: Thomas Smith
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:35
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:35
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Eclipse is an awesome IDE and has a nifty plugin called VEP that is a nice Visual GUI builder. -- Thomas W. Smith Senior Engineer "Steven O." <null@null.com> wrote in message news:vd99k0l9vg79nr2ogupptu6f05sf39afhm@4ax.com... >I am seeking some kind of tool that I can use for GUI prototyping. I > know how to use Visual Basic, but since a lot of software is being > coded in Java or C++, I'd like to learn a Java or C++ -based tool. > Back when I took my Java and C++ classes (two or three years ago), the > available tools -- at least the ones I could find -- were still not as > easy, not as "drag-and-drop", as Visual Basic. Has that changed? > > Is there some software out there that I could use, maybe some Borland > or Sun product, that makes it very easy to design a basic GUI? The > same tool could almost surely be used to build the behind-the-scenes > code as well, but I'd leave that to pros. I just want to be able to > create screen mockups of the GUI, and let someone else actually build > the code that makes it work. Ideally, I'd like to find a tool where > there is a "Personal" edition that's free, or very, very cheap. > > I visited Sun's site, and it *appears* they've discontinued all their > personal and student versions (unless I missed something), and I can't > afford $1000+ for the tools I did see. Borland still has the JBuilder > "Foundation" version, for free -- can anyone tell me how user-friendly > that is? > > Please let me know what you can recommend. I can be contacted > directly via e-mail, if you visit the Web site in my Sig, below. > Thanks in advance for all replies. > > Steve O. > > "Spying On The College Of Your Choice" -- How to pick the college that is > the Best Match for a high school student's needs. > www.SpyingOnTheCollegeOfYourChoice.com
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