Eclipse Visual Editor
Build visual user interfaces for Swing, SWT and Eclipse RCP applications with a graphical editor.
Download Eclipse Visual Editor 1.2.3.jem for EasyEclipse 1.2.2:
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(5.9MB)Download Eclipse Visual Editor 3.3.0.200709121813 for EasyEclipse 1.3:
The Eclipse Visual Editor is a WYSIWYG tool for creating Swing (Sun's graphical user interface for Java) or SWT (Eclipse's user interface) user interfaces. It also contains a framework for creating tools to create Graphical User Interface for Java programs (GUI builder).
Note: This plugin is not maintained anymore by the Eclipse foundation. The build here was created by Erik Hecht.
There are currently 14 comments for this plugin. You can review them and add more here.
Installing this plugin
This plugin is in the EasyEclipse Desktop Java and EasyEclipse for Plugins and RCP Apps distributions.
If you install this plugin on another EasyEclipse distribution, the dependent plugin Eclipse Java Development Tools must be present in the EasyEclipse distribution, or must be installed separately.
Getting started
Help is available for this plugin, in the Help > Help Contents menu in EasyEclipse.
The very extensive help does not have any tutorial, but the plugin comes with a variety of examples, that you can access using the New > Examples... menu: you can then choose among AWT, Swing and SWT sample dialogs.
Useful links
- Eclipse Visual Editor home
- Project FAQ
- Documentation
- Tutorial: Older, but mostly valid, tutorial from IBM for Swing
Changelog
Changes in EasyEclipse 1.3.1:
- Upgraded to Eclipse Visual Editor 3.3.0.200709121813.
- Upgraded to new version: thanks to Erik Hecht for the patch.
- Upgraded to Eclipse Visual Editor 1.2.3.jem.
- Upgraded to Eclipse Visual Editor 1.2.1.
- Upgraded to Eclipse Visual Editor 1.2.0: Now with support for Swing on Mac, and many other improvments.
- Initial release (with Eclipse Visual Editor 1.1.0.1).
Credits and License
Credits: Eclipse Foundation, Erik Hecht
Copyright (c) Eclipse contributors and others. 2000-2007. All rights reserved.
This plugin is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 license.
It seems that there is some new effort of porting the VE-Plugin to Europa.
Have a look at this Newsgroup-Entry
regards,
Alexander Malic
Yes, and we are helping there too!
see comments below.
THE DOWNLOAD LINK IS NOT WORKING. 11-21-07
Weird, let me check the mirrors, and eventually make a new release drop.
BTW, note that I am now a committer on VE, and that we are working on getting official builds at Eclipse first, then we will pull them in EasyEclipse.
This is by the way one of the reason that we delayed a bit the released of the desktop and plugin warrior distros with the latest bleading edge eclipse versions.
the download link is still not working. (tested 12-20-2007).
still not working (7.1.08). whats up here?
Still not working… Any word on the upstream release?
Link still… not working. I really to get this file.. Any clues?
I really need the visual editor plugin, but none of the Sourceforge mirrors work. Anyone got a link where I can get it from?
The download link is still not working. (tested 06-24-2008).
look here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131065&package_id=154855&release_id=539176
works under Eclipse Europe
Thanks for the tip! Finaly there is VE for Eclipse Europa.
But I still have problem. When installing, this message appears: “requires plug-in ‘org.eclipse.jem (2.0.0)’ or compatible”.
What should I do next?
When I add a component to any container whose layout is managed by a GridBagLayout, the component inserts correctly in the code (getter, setter), but the generated code for the GridBagConstraints misses the instantiation and leaves the line incomplete leading to a compilation error and a desynchronization in the view.
I get:
GridBagConstraints gridBagConstraints11 = ;
gridBagConstraints11.gridx = 2;
gridBagConstraints11.gridy = 0;
So I have to complete every time by adding “new GridBagConstraints()” after the =.
Also, the comments here should be sorted in descending order, so the most recent are on top of the page.
I agree with Samy, this version 1.3.0 is completely broken when it comes to grid layouts. Also constraints cannot be edited from the properties viewer.