Graphical user interface builder
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A graphical user interface builder, or GUI builder, also known as GUI designer is a software development tool that simplifies the creation of GUIs by allowing the designer to arrange widgets using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor. Without a GUI builder, a GUI must be built by manually specifying each widget's parameters in code, with no visual feedback until the program is run.
User interfaces are commonly programmed using an event-driven architecture, so GUI builders also simplify creating event-driven code. This supporting code connects widgets with the outgoing and incoming events that trigger the functions providing the application logic.
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[edit] List of GUI builders
[edit] Programs
- Axure RP
- Cocoa/OpenStep
- Fast, Light Toolkit
- GNUstep
- GTK+
- Windows Presentation Foundation
- WxWidgets
- Intrinsics
- Qt
- GEM
- Resource construction set
- Interface by Shift Computer
- ORCS (Otto's RCS)
- K-Resource
- Resource Master
- Annabel Junior
- WERCS by HiSoft
- OpenWindows
- Wavemaker open source, browser-based development platform for Ajax development based on Dojo, Spring, Hibernate
- XForms (toolkit)
- Tk (framework)
[edit] IDE Plugins
- NetBeans GUI design tool, formerly known as Matisse
- Visual Editor - A plugin for Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto)
- Himalia Guilder (for Visual Studio 2005)
- WxSmith (Code::Blocks plug-in)
[edit] List of development environments
[edit] IDEs with GUI builders
- Anjuta
- CodeGear RAD Studio (former Borland Development Studio)
- Clarion
- KDevelop
- Lazarus
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- MonoDevelop
- NetBeans
- Qt Creator
- Softwell Maker
- WinDev
