Difference between revisions of "Visual Editor Project"

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The Eclipse Visual Editor project is a platform for creating GUI builders within Eclipse. The project currently provides support for WYSIWYG editing of Swing/AWT and SWT/RCP user interfaces.

NOTE: Current official builds of the Visual Editor require Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto).

Supported Platforms

The Visual Editor is currently supported on the following platforms:

• Win32 - Swing/AWT, SWT
• Linux
  • GTK2/x86 - Swing/AWT, SWT
  • GTK2/x86_64 - Swing/AWT, SWT
  • GTK2/ppc - Swing/AWT, SWT
  • Motif - Swing/AWT
• Mac OS X 10.4 - Swing, SWT

SWT development requires Java 1.4.2 or later.

Development Resources

• How To Update VE for Eclipse Ganymade
• How To Install VE 1.3 for Eclipse 3.3 Europa / Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede (subject to change, unsupported)
• Roadmap for the VE 1.3 Release
• VE Documentation

Release History

• 1.2.2_jem (Current Release, for Eclipse 3.2 / Callisto) - Fri, 27 Oct 2006
• 1.2.1 - Tue, 26 Sep 2006
• 1.2 - Wed, 28 Jun 2006
• 1.1.0.1 - Wed, 7 Sep 2005
• 1.1 - Fri, 22 Jul 2005
• 1.0.2.2 - Wed, 29 Jun 2005
• 1.0.2.1 - Thu, 17 Mar 2005
• 1.0.2 - Thu, 9 Dec 2004
• 1.0.1.1 - Fri, 22 Oct 2004
• 1.0 - Sun, 19 Sep 2004
• 0.5.0 - Fri, 5 Dec 2003

See Also

• Visual Editor Project website
• VE 1.2 Development Plan
• Standard Widget Toolkit
• Rich Client Platform
• Sun's Swing Tutorial