Isolate GUI editor from IDE

[albfan]

JMeld comes with group layout forms

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/group.html

which is tied to Netbeans https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/quickstart-gui.html

Every little change made, generates a lot of noise which hides the change behind.. See 4fc9004 as an example, I want to avoid that.

Other solutions are tied to each IDE too:

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/designing-gui-major-steps.html

Seems there is no "rosseta stone" for java forms. Best shot is jformdesigner but is privative and it converts metadata form to... another closed form format.

Other good solutions are:

http://www.jgoodies.com/products/swing-suite/
http://www.miglayout.com/

The objetive is to design complex GUI layouts with a compact and robust system, wether it is command line, visual, or compiled from metadata.

[opticyclic]

If you are going to rewrite the GUI, maybe do it in JavaFX or go crazy and use Electron!

[albfan]

Indeed, plans are to offer core as a REST api, so electron implementations should be easy to do.

[albfan]

Although not apparently related, working on albfan/SocketTest#3 gives the tips to finish this issue (as it is a more simple program, easy to translate to MVC)

[albfan]

Have to take a look at fxml editor from javafx https://picodotdev.github.io/blog-bitix/2015/10/javafx-scene-builder-editor-para-crear-archivos-fxml/

[albfan]

I did a quick test and fxml works correctly.

https://github.com/albfan/javafxTest