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IntelliJ includes a Swing builder (and is itself written with Swing). The product that I miss for little SMB projects is Access. It was the best option for bui

IntelliJ includes a Swing builder (and is itself written with Swing). The product that I miss for little SMB projects is Access. It was the best option for building single-user CRUD apps with a really thoughtful bundle of features. (It totally fell over with multi-user, and every user needed a license for the runtime (with some exceptions) and VBA had some major warts, but in terms of DX it was great)

qwerty456127 5y ago
> IntelliJ includes a Swing builder Nice to know. I thought they deprecated soon after they added it. > and is itself written with Swing Is there a way to configure it to look like actual Swing[1]? [1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37073/figures/ide-profiling-tools.png https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37073/figures/ide...
- javajosh 5y ago
  It's been a while, but Swing has a "Pluggable Look and Feel" (PLAF) where the default is Swing. See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/... BTW here's a link to the component - it's called GUI Designer. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/components-of-the-gui-designer.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/components-of-the-gui-de...
  - qwerty456127 5y ago
    I know and that's why I ask. I mean I would like to configure an existing pre-built non-free Swing app (a JetBrains IDE) to use the default Swing PLAF (the PLAF NetBeans used the last time I tried it) instead of the one the original developer has bundled.
qwerty456127 5y ago
> The product that I miss for little SMB projects is Access. It was the best option for building single-user CRUD apps with a really thoughtful bundle of features. Try Gupta Team Developer. It's an SQL-centric binding-driven visual RAD tool where you draw the controls visually and basically bind them to SQL queries. It was pleasure and fun to use the last time I tried. To me it felt way better than Access.

qwerty456127 5y ago

> IntelliJ includes a Swing builder Nice to know. I thought they deprecated soon after they added it. > and is itself written with Swing Is there a way to configure it to look like actual Swing[1]? [1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37073/figures/ide-profiling-tools.png https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37073/figures/ide...

javajosh 5y ago
It's been a while, but Swing has a "Pluggable Look and Feel" (PLAF) where the default is Swing. See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/... BTW here's a link to the component - it's called GUI Designer. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/components-of-the-gui-designer.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/components-of-the-gui-de...
- qwerty456127 5y ago
  I know and that's why I ask. I mean I would like to configure an existing pre-built non-free Swing app (a JetBrains IDE) to use the default Swing PLAF (the PLAF NetBeans used the last time I tried it) instead of the one the original developer has bundled.

qwerty456127 5y ago

> The product that I miss for little SMB projects is Access. It was the best option for building single-user CRUD apps with a really thoughtful bundle of features. Try Gupta Team Developer. It's an SQL-centric binding-driven visual RAD tool where you draw the controls visually and basically bind them to SQL queries. It was pleasure and fun to use the last time I tried. To me it felt way better than Access.