Daniil Vodopian [9:28 PM] Who uses what for UI on...

# gui

[voddan]

Daniil Vodopian [9:28 PM]
Who uses what for UI on desktop? (edited)

[9:30]
I know about JavaFX, it is kinda XML-ish, and I couldn't find a dissent modelling tool like for android

[9:30]
Swing used to rock, but seems no-one uses it any more. And the same problem with tooling

caker egg [11:02 PM]
joined #C0922A726

Cédric Beust [11:47 PM]
I wrote a decent amount of SWT/JFace a few years back, it was always a good experience. Probably still true today @voddan (edited)


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Daniil Vodopian [12:06 AM]
@cedric: any graphical designers you recall?

[12:07]
IJ is very good with the android framework, but noone seems to be interested in Desktop those days

Cédric Beust [12:07 AM]
Yes, at the time https://eclipse.org/windowbuilder/ was very good. Don't know about now, I always designed my UI's by hand (made much easier by SWT's super powerful TableLayout)

WindowBuilder
Eclipse is probably best known as a Java IDE, but it is more: it is an IDE framework, a tools framework, an open source project, a community, an eco-system, and a foundation.

[12:07]
If you're going down this route, make sure to look up Eclipse RCP, it's definitely what I would use for a complex UI app today.

[12:08]
(and let's switch to #C09222272 if you want to keep talking about this) (edited)

Nicolas Fränkel [1:00 AM]
well, i dabbled in eclipse RCP some years ago
their API was very unstable at that time
(breaking changes every year)
don't know if it's still the case
but that's something worth discovering before

Yann Le Moigne [1:03 AM]
Eclipse RCP is really painful… From dependency to build, nothing standard. Equinox/OSGI will hurt you more often than it helps. Really, SWT/JFace is fine, but I won’t recommand anyone to dive into Eclipse as a platform.
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Daniil Vodopian [1:07 AM]
what do you use now @nfrankel , @ylemoigne ?