ok heres a question for you Java guys. I have been getting a little more in depth with writing GUI for my java apps. I recently googled upon Netbeans, where it reminds me of dreamweaver in the sense of what it can do for GUI.
To clarify, as im sure most of you know, dreamweaver basically asks what you want to do, and puts it into code for you. I noticed netbeans does this for java GUI, and even sets it up for your methods. So for example, you want a box called Convert in a nice little simple gui. You simply draw it out, tell it what you want it to do, (what kind of action), in this case I believe it would be a listener to be called from a method.
So my question is, should I really be using this? Is it as simple as it seems? Jesus, this would save me hours if i can literally draw out my whole gui, and the end result i would just have to call all my methods in my class file. Netbeans even makes it easier to add fancy stuff into it, since you literally tell it you want, say a picture, and it inputs the code for you.
So please, tell me your opinion on this. And if all this is easy, I have been wasting too much time writing the gui code by hand. That would be like writing html by hand, when I simply could open dreamweaver up.
Thanks guys.
To clarify, as im sure most of you know, dreamweaver basically asks what you want to do, and puts it into code for you. I noticed netbeans does this for java GUI, and even sets it up for your methods. So for example, you want a box called Convert in a nice little simple gui. You simply draw it out, tell it what you want it to do, (what kind of action), in this case I believe it would be a listener to be called from a method.
So my question is, should I really be using this? Is it as simple as it seems? Jesus, this would save me hours if i can literally draw out my whole gui, and the end result i would just have to call all my methods in my class file. Netbeans even makes it easier to add fancy stuff into it, since you literally tell it you want, say a picture, and it inputs the code for you.
So please, tell me your opinion on this. And if all this is easy, I have been wasting too much time writing the gui code by hand. That would be like writing html by hand, when I simply could open dreamweaver up.
Thanks guys.