How to create GUI as inner class with WindowBuilder
- by Tim Kemp
I would like to use WindowBuilder in Eclipse to construct Swing GUIs. The JPanels I need to build will be inner classes in a non-GUI wrapper, like so:
public class MyWrapper extends MyBaseClass {
...
class MyPanel extends JPanel {
...
}
}
So my question is this: can I construct MyPanel using WindowBuilder? If so, how should I set it up?
If anyone is interested, the wrapper is an abstract base class which the plug-ins I am developing for my app must extend; deployment concerns mean that it's not really practical to put the GUIs in a separate JAR either so I pretty much have to do it this way.
My current workflow, which is awful, is to build the GUI in NetBeans and paste the entire generated class into Eclipse where I connect it up to the methods in my wrapper. I am very hopeful that WindowBuilder will let me work more reliably and efficiently if I can trick it into generating code in MyPanel, not MyWrapper.
Thanks
