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A visual diff and merge tool
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Isolate GUI editor from IDE #18

Open albfan opened 9 years ago

albfan commented 9 years ago

JMeld comes with group layout forms

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/group.html

which is tied to Netbeans https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/quickstart-gui.html

Every little change made, generates a lot of noise which hides the change behind.. See https://github.com/albfan/jmeld/commit/4fc9004106b72aac2011146e98bf57898f736d9a as an example, I want to avoid that.

Other solutions are tied to each IDE too:

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/designing-gui-major-steps.html

Seems there is no "rosseta stone" for java forms. Best shot is jformdesigner but is privative and it converts metadata form to... another closed form format.

Other good solutions are:

http://www.jgoodies.com/products/swing-suite/ http://www.miglayout.com/

The objetive is to design complex GUI layouts with a compact and robust system, wether it is command line, visual, or compiled from metadata.

opticyclic commented 8 years ago

If you are going to rewrite the GUI, maybe do it in JavaFX or go crazy and use Electron!

albfan commented 8 years ago

Indeed, plans are to offer core as a REST api, so electron implementations should be easy to do.

albfan commented 8 years ago

Although not apparently related, working on https://github.com/albfan/SocketTest/issues/3 gives the tips to finish this issue (as it is a more simple program, easy to translate to MVC)

albfan commented 7 years ago

Have to take a look at fxml editor from javafx https://picodotdev.github.io/blog-bitix/2015/10/javafx-scene-builder-editor-para-crear-archivos-fxml/

albfan commented 6 years ago

I did a quick test and fxml works correctly.

https://github.com/albfan/javafxTest