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Netbeans / Eclipse Fetching GUI Code

Is there a plugin that will allow me to create a GUI in eclipse or netbeans and then extract the source code for use in another environment?

I am much more comfortable using emacs for my development, but the gui design is much easier using a WYSIWYG environment. What I'm looking for is to design the framework in eclipse / netbeans and then extract only the gui code so I can import it into my project?

How JFrameBuilder does.

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What happened to using Netbeans / Eclipse and emacs on the same set of files?



  • Use Netbeans or Eclipse for GUI development.
  • Close Netbeans / Eclipse.
  • Open Emacs and code.
  • Close Emacs.
  • Rinse and repeat.
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Personally, I felt that Swing GUI design is best done without WYSIWYG. I came to Java after years of application development with Delphi and there was no suitable GUI designer for Swing at the time, which was a shock to me.



For manual UI design / coding to be effective, a really good layout manager must be used. MigLayout is one such layout manager. Since I started using it, I have never looked back at WYSIWIG tools - sheet of paper, pencil, MigLayout, and complete control over your code.

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