Comments on: Swinging With Swiby http://www.blog.dannynet.net/archives/82 Pondering Programming and Poetry Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:08:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Harald Walker http://www.blog.dannynet.net/archives/82#comment-75460 Harald Walker Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:42:13 +0000 http://www.blog.dannynet.net/archives/82#comment-75460 If you don't want to use Netbeans (in spite of the great Ruby support in Netbeans 6?) you can use Matisse4MyEclipse in Eclipse - unfortunately not for free. What javaFX (F3) needs next to compete with Flex etc. is a user friendly GUI builder which designers can use. An alternative to Ruby+Swiby might be Groovy for GUI creation (see http://groovy.codehaus.org/GUI+Programming+with+Groovy), which I haven't tried myself yet. If you don’t want to use Netbeans (in spite of the great Ruby support in Netbeans 6?) you can use Matisse4MyEclipse in Eclipse - unfortunately not for free. What javaFX (F3) needs next to compete with Flex etc. is a user friendly GUI builder which designers can use. An alternative to Ruby+Swiby might be Groovy for GUI creation (see http://groovy.codehaus.org/GUI+Programming+with+Groovy), which I haven’t tried myself yet.

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