Creating GUI with Netbeans

[Exbajalator]

Just curious as to if it is a "sin" to create Java GUI's with Netbean's IDE, I've programmed Java GUI's from scratch before, but with how simplistic and quick it is to create a GUI with this sort of tool I was wondering is this used in the industry much, or not at all?

[obfuscator]

Moving this to Programming subforum as you'll get better answers there.

 

Now to answer your question: Creating gui with netbeans is probably fine. While it can tend to slow things down a tad it's industry standard to use gui designers in multiple other languages so you'll be fine.

 

Never hurts to learn the code though :P

[GottaGetDownOnfriday]

Using a GUI designer will make things quicker, but you will miss out on the learning experience of doing it yourself. Netbeans will give you ugly generated code which is hard to understand. It is ok to use GUI builders for simple desktop and applet applications for personal use, but in college and more advanced applications, it would be wise to hard code things or at least build your own GUI tools. You can do that buy using a couple of booleans and mouse events.

[Stormfolk]

For VB.net from Microsoft GUI is the way to go, but for Java I think most people still just code everything.

[Sbrideau]

With Java as far as I know, building the UI like that gives unneeded code.

[obfuscator]

With Java as far as I know, building the UI like that gives unneeded code.

Yeah, it positions stuff "the long way". To the best of my knowledge it's the same with C# though.

 

If you're looking at really complicated forms, coding them by hand can't hurt. Otherwise, GUI buliders are probably ok.

[GuidesForScapers]

In my experience, creating a GUI is nothing significantly difficult. If you were to read a few tutorials and do it a few times, there would no longer be a need for you to use netbeans.

[obfuscator]

Its really just the complicated layouts that make it easier to use netbeans.