Howdy ho,

Was wondering what tools are you using for designing GUI's for scripts?

What I already tried was:

* NetBeans - very lovely, though who codes in NetBeans? Hate to migrate code from it to Eclipse

* Eclipse window builder - Honestly, didn't see something so horrible on such a high scale. Tried other Eclipce plugins, but they were either horrible or added external dependencies when exported as jar (no bueno for OSBot)

Didn't try InteliJ solutions though. Maybe it has a lovely inbuilt Swing designer as NetBeans?

Comments, discussion and general experience using various tools is welcome.

Oh, and writing everything by hand is no bueno, reason being that this is not a university (jk) and might become hell real quick when doing something complex. 

What's wrong with NetBeans? Copy/paste is too much work for you?

1 minute ago, Woody said:

What's wrong with NetBeans? Copy/paste is too much work for you?

In short - yes.

Can't really say that it's the best tool in general if you need to copy/paste stuff all the time.

I use intellij's inbuilt builder

 

13 minutes ago, nosepicker said:

In short - yes.

Can't really say that it's the best tool in general if you need to copy/paste stuff all the time.

Why do you need the best tool?

However, there are plenty of options, just find the one you like to work with, not the "best" one.

1 hour ago, nosepicker said:

Howdy ho,

Was wondering what tools are you using for designing GUI's for scripts?

What I already tried was:

* NetBeans - very lovely, though who codes in NetBeans? Hate to migrate code from it to Eclipse

* Eclipse window builder - Honestly, didn't see something so horrible on such a high scale. Tried other Eclipce plugins, but they were either horrible or added external dependencies when exported as jar (no bueno for OSBot)

Didn't try InteliJ solutions though. Maybe it has a lovely inbuilt Swing designer as NetBeans?

Comments, discussion and general experience using various tools is welcome.

Oh, and writing everything by hand is no bueno, reason being that this is not a university (jk) and might become hell real quick when doing something complex. 

 

IntelliJ built-in GUI builder is fine.

Best way to do it is writing the code yourself though.

JFormDesigner

Type out by hand