

In eclipse, you can open any previously written code with "open with" and select "WindowBuilder Editor" and the "auto-code" is generated.SWT is an open source widget toolkit for Java designed to provide efficient, portable access to the user-interface facilities of the operating systems on which it is implemented. I have imported eclipse programs, but have been unable to get any of this "auto-code" to import. I guess by auto-code, you mean what the design functions of eclipse and netbeans produce. When it comes down to it, if you can get a ".java" file, then you can include that in your source in your new NetBeans project. Les Morgan wrote:NetBeans has an import eclipse project option in the file menu, what that will do with the auto-code I haven't a clue, auto-code has always been a problem in every IDE I have ever used when converting from one project format to another. Once you do that though, it will not longer be maintained by the autocoder.īTW: the autocoders produce some of the ugliest code I've ever seen, possibly why they don't like to import eachother's work. I'll assume that Eclipse will do the same.


In NetBeans you can remove your code from the autocoder and then maintain it in a ".java" file along with the rest of your code. I have never seen auto-code that translates well from one development system to another. Auto-coding is a problem across the board when you want to change development tools. I've tried a simple GUI tutorial in netbeans and like what I see. Is that true? I would like to try my program with development in netbeans without reinventing the wheel. I thought I read somewhere where you cannot import an eclipse windowbuilder program into netbeans. Maybe it will have better panel design? I would like to use what I have already done. I have now entered phase 3 of my process, try netbeans instead of eclipse. I like the idea of using windowbuilder for basic design and then tweak manually. Some I can see pretty accurately in design mode, but mostly not. I could not get what I wanted through eclipse windowbuilder, so most of my panels are home built. For the majority, I use border layout intermixed with gridbag layout. The hardest part was developing my panel layouts. I have finished the project a second time. I decided card layout with different layouts (not absolute) would be better. As I read more about java, I decided I took the wrong approach.

I used tabbed panes for all my panels and absolute layout (I got that from a youtube GUI tutorial). The program is a golf handicap program (add scores, course, etc. I wrote my first java program while reading about java. Let me give you a little bit of background. I was not sure whether to post this here or in the beginning java forum.
