Java界面开发工具WindowBuilder

2011-06-23 11:42

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在项目要进行最终界面展示开发时，又得回到熟悉而久违的的SWT/JFACE，继而追寻Eclipse的优秀的WYSIWYG插件WindowBuilder（没用WB之前都是手工敲代码，并界面排版），却惊喜的发现，不用再漫天搜查注册码，如今WindowBuilder的Java/Ajax工具开发商Instantiations已经于2010年8月被Google给收购了，WindowBuilder也作为免费工具开放，强大的Google！

并传闻Google这一收购用意不仅在GWT设计工具，更在于Ajax和Java方面，Google所有网页应用都部署了大量的Ajax，而Android应用则使用Java来创建。

WindowBuilder简介

WindowBuilder是一款基于Eclipse平台的双向Java的GUI设计插件式的软件。具备SWT/JFACE开发、Swing开发及GWT 开发三大功能，是一款不可多得的Java体系中的WYSIWYG工具。

基本界面视图如下：

WindowBuilder目前最新版是9.0，各版本历史见：http://code.google.com/javadevtools/wbpro/whatsnew/index.html

用户界面：

Design View – the main visual layout area.
Source View – write code and review the generated code
Structure View – composed of the Component Tree and the Property Pane.
- Component Tree – shows the hierarchical relationship between all of the components.
- Property Pane – displays properties and events of the selected components.
Palette – provides quick access to toolkit-specific components.
Toolbar – provides access to commonly used commands.
Context Menu – provides access to commonly used commands

主要特性：

Bi-directional Code Generation – read and write almost any format and reverse-engineer most hand-written code
Internationalization (i18n) / Localization – externalize component strings, create and manage resource bundles.
Custom Composites & Panels – create custom, reusable components.
Factories – create custom factory classes and methods.
Visual Inheritance – create visual component hierarchies.
Event Handling – add event handlers to your components.
Menu Editing – visually create and edit menubars, menu items and popup menus.
Morphing – convert one component type into another.