Tutorial Visual Editor Installation in eclipse

[jeffbroodwar]

Hi,

I tried to read the visual editor plugin in eclipse.org... and i'm having trouble installing it since some of the links under the requirements page are dead. can't even open the FAQ in VEP installation... dead link.

can someone help me accomplish this? ofcourse a clean installation of VEP in eclipse...

Jos, do you manually code everything when ur working on a GUI project? example you'll be developing a simple inventory system with charts,reports and webservice features...i'm really bothered just thinking of doing all that... don't you use any plugins like VEP? thanks for the tips... it helped =)

Kind regards,
Pupoy

[JosAH]

Did you also download and install the GEF and EMF? Plus: you need Eclipse 3.2
for the entire thing. I once installed it out of curiosity. The entire download and
installation took me longer than the removal of it all: I didn't like it.

And yes, I coded everything by hand which isn't that much work if you think
about it first a bit: lots of components can be reused again and again. That is
the fun part of it all: designing it; the actual implementation was boring and
sometimes a bit of trial and error because of those LayoutManager that didn't
make things look the way I wanted them to look.

I can't help you with that visual editor project.

kind regards,

Jos

[jeffbroodwar]

wow... hmm.. maybe i should learn how to code everything and not using any GUI plugin. ;) , i'll just post questions here from time to time to help me with the error messages that i'll get. its just that, i'm really not that familiar with some of the properties of the class like the north west south,everything should be googled to understand... you see most of these are auto generated in netbeans and its giving me a headache just by thinking that i need to understand every objects behavior before copy and pasting it to reuse it. anyway, kinda inspired to hear that someone can actually do inventory system by reusing objects and not actually needing any GUI plugin. I'll just post some of the errors,questions that i'll encounter during the implementation... thanks man.

Kind regards,
Pupoy

[JosAH]

Erm, by 'reuse' I don't mean 'copy and paste' the code. I simply reuse the code
as it is (compiled and present in a .jar file). We compiled a few useful links in the
Articles Index. Download the documentation, it is very well worth it and takes just a few
mega bytes on your hard disk. Not knowing what you're working with or how
these thing are supposed to work is the worst that can happen. Guessing is not
part of a more or less scientific way of programming. Also google for "Swing
tutorial", it's quite a good tutorial. I started off there too.

kind regards,

Jos