how are most of you guys dealing with UI’s for int...

# intellij-plugins

[Chris Cunningham]

how are most of you guys dealing with UI’s for intellij plugins, doing it all in kotlin, or making the UI in the swing ui builder and binding to java

[breandan]

Kotlin, I came up with a few tricks for data binding with property delegates that have worked well. Don’t use the UI builder, it generates a bunch of garbage code

[breandan]

https://github.com/acejump/AceJump/tree/master/src/main/kotlin/org/acejump/config

[breandan]

Specifically, I write extension methods for the getters/setters to get a primitive form of data binding: https://github.com/acejump/AceJump/blob/b9b804c5883a74e8bd4d017c5155db82dd606507/src/main/kotlin/org/acejump/config/AceSettingsPanel.kt#L80

[breandan]

This is the model: https://github.com/acejump/AceJump/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/org/acejump/config/AceSettings.kt

[Chris Cunningham]

cool will take a peek at that

[Chris Cunningham]

right now, i am just using java with data binding, but it sucks, and i feel my layout is easy enough to define in code

[breandan]

There is a Kotlin DSL for it

[breandan]

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/ui/layout/readme.md

[Chris Cunningham]

thanks for the info, will be trying it out

[Chris Cunningham]

is it required to use gradle for the kotlin ui dsl to work?