Graphical user interface builder

NetBeans GUI builder

A graphical user interface builder (or GUI builder), also known as GUI designer or sometimes rapid application development (RAD) integrated development environment (IDE), is a software development tool that simplifies creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) by allowing a designer to arrange graphical control elements (often called widgets) using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor.[1] Without a GUI builder, a GUI must be built by manually specifying each widget's parameters in the source 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 software widgets with the outgoing and incoming events that trigger the functions providing the application logic.

Some graphical user interface builders automatically generate all the source code for a graphical control element. Others, like Interface Builder or Glade Interface Designer, generate serialized object instances that are then loaded by the application.

List of GUI builders

C language based

C# based

C++ based

Objective-C, Swift based

Java based

HTML–JavaScript based

Python based

Object Pascal based

Tk framework based

Visual Basic based

Other tools

List of development environments

IDEs with GUI builders (RAD IDEs)

See also

References

  1. ^ Zarras, Apostolos V.; Mamalis, Georgios; Papamichail, Aggelos; Kollias, Panagiotis; Vassiliadis, Panos (2018). "And the Tool Created a GUI That was Impure and Without Form: Anti-Patterns in Automatically Generated GUIs" (PDF). Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP '18). Irsee, Germany: ACM. doi:10.1145/3273418.3273450.

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