Thursday, March 22, 2007

10th entry - NetBeans Swing GUI Builder tools

According to NetBeans (2007), Swing GUI(Graphics User Interface) tools enable the user to drag and drop some simple and intuitive graphics layout, such as button, drop down menu, button, text box and others. It also provide some guideline for spacing and alignment between the graphics being place on the layout.

There are also pre-installed pluging component for the NetBeans application. With the 'Help' section manager, it able to assist the user with task like synchronizing the GUI and JavaBean properties. It also provide users with pre-code template to reduce the action method coding for the graphics layout that been selected, such as labels, buttons, text field box and etceteras.

Reference
NetBeans (2007), "Netbeans IDE Features", http://www.netbeans.org/products/ide/
features.html#NetBeans_Swing_GUI_Builder_forme