General Demos

This group of demos apply to all of the WindowBuilder products (SWT Designer, Swing Designer, and GWT Designer).

Designing Menus (4:20 = 4 minutes, 20 seconds)
Using Designer, it is quick and painless to create menu bars and popup menus.

Creating Event Handlers (2:43)
Designer makes it easy to add and remove event listeners to your controls.

Using Templates (2:23)
Designer makes it easy to create custom widget template that allows you to save your own default properties for a control.

NLS Tools (Internationalization) (7:31)
Designer has powerful internationalization (i18n) support. It can externalize component strings, create and manage resource bundles for multiple languages, switch locales on the fly and edit translated strings in context.

SWT Designer

Designing JFace Dialogs (4:14)
Quickly create and design JFace Dialogs using SWT Designer.

Designing JFace Wizard Pages (2:41)
SWT Designer lets you quickly create and design JFace WizardPages.

Designing JFace Application Windows (4:21)
SWT Designer provides a powerful graphical interface for laying out the contents of the window and for defining actions and assigning them to the window's toolbar and menu.

Creating Custom Composites (3:35)
With SWT Designer, you can easily create your own custom composite and use it in your application.

Using FormLayout (3:42)
The SWT Designer fully supports FormLayout and you can easily configure the layout graphically.

Data Binding (Eclipse 3.3 & up) (6:16)
SWT Designer lets you quickly create and edit data bindings.

Swing Designer

Swing Designer Overview (6:50)
Designer is a powerful and easy to use bi-directional Java GUI designer.

Swing Visual Inheritance (2:46)
Designer supports visual inheritance of Swing components.

Using Spring Layout (2:58)
Designer fully supports creating SpringLayouts using fixed sized springs (struts), and you can easily configure the layout graphically.

Using GridBag Layout (3:37)
Designer provides extensive graphical feedback and several other ways to easily design your UI using GridBag layout.

GWT Designer

GWT Designer Overview (3:54)
GWT Designer is a powerful, easy-to-use, GUI editing tool that supports bi-directional code generation, internationalization, and a multitude of layout managers.

AbsolutePanel (1:22)
Matisse-style alignment feedback. Align widgets to margins or other widgets. Easily move and resize widgets. Supports all CSS units for resizing.

FlowPanel, HorizontalPanel and VerticalPanel (1:40)
GWT Designer's drag-and-drop feature makes it very easy to design Flow, Horizontal and Vertical panels.

CSS Support (2:42)
GWT Designer provides a powerful graphical editor for CSS rules.

Grid and FlexTable (1:40)
The graphical feedback makes it easy to know which cells are open. You can drop widgets in any open cells. Easily insert new rows or columns by dropping widgets on row or column margins. Graphically set cell alignment, row and column spanning.

GWT Composites (2:53)
GWT Designer makes it easy to design your own custom composite and use it in your application.

Remote Service (1:54)
GWT Designer provides a wizard for creating remote services.

Internationalization (i18n) (5:01)
Easily extract hard-coded strings into resource files. Create multiple GWT message classes. Create and manage multiple locales. Switch languages to see immediate changes in design view.