eclipse visual editor

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michael nesterenko picture michael nesterenko · Jul 15, 2011 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

Today I tried to install visual editor and every link I found lead or to 404 page or to http://www.eclipse.org/archived/ which tells that it was archived in the previous month. Are there any update site left I can use to install visual editor? I am just not happy to download 400+ megabytes to install visual editor offline.

Answer

mikera picture mikera · Jul 15, 2011

I believe Visual Editor is deprecated.

Instead, you should probably install WindowBuilder which is available either as a plug-in or as part of the official Eclipse 3.7 Indigo release for Java developers.

My impression is that WindowBuilder is a very good GUI-building tool and will be the main GUI editor for Eclipse in the future.

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