IDEA GUI builder released (#823)
IDEA’s GUI builder has finally been released, and aren’t we all just itching to play with it? I am.
* Mark has a “good writeup”:http://talios.blog-city.com/readblog.cfm?BID=102875 and a screencap
* Get it “here”:http://www.intellij.net/eap/products/idea/download.jsp (“changes”:http://www.intellij.net/eap/products/idea/changes.jsp)
* Plenty of “posts”:http://www.intellij.net/forums/forum.jsp?forum=22 in the forum about the GUI builder already.
I applaud Eugene and troops for taking such a bold stand on this.
Yes – you need to bundle an IDEA GUI components JAR with your application.
Yes – you can’t edit, tweak or play with the code of the GUI.
Yes – it uses bytecode manipulation to insert it’s GUI elements.
Everyone’s yelling about this – personally, it suits me fine. If it works well, I’ll use it. If the points above mean IntelliJ can write a better GUI editor, fantastic!
