Learning Eclipse Visual Editor Swing with Java

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bat picture bat · Jun 4, 2010 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I am trying to create a java GUI project for school using Eclipse Visual Editor with Swing. But i am having a lot of issues learning this since this is the first time i am making a GUI.

Like when i drag JPanel into my screen, it creates a function for it, but how do i call it in a separate file?

I guess my question is does anyone know of any good resources that can help me learn how to use visual editor (links, books, youtube videos, examples)?

Thanks =]

Answer

Romain Hippeau picture Romain Hippeau · Jun 4, 2010

Here are a couple of tutorials for using the Visual Editor.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecvisual/
and
http://www.cs.siu.edu/~wainer/484S05/visEdit/eclipseVE.pdf

Here is the Swing Tutorial

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