Graphical user interface builder

Short description: Software development tool

NetBeans GUI builder

A graphical user interface builder (or GUI builder), also known as GUI designer or sometimes RAD IDE, is a software development tool that simplifies the creation of GUIs by allowing the designer to arrange graphical control elements (often called widgets) using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor. 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. Such tools are usually called the term RAD IDE.

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.

## Contents

* 1 List of GUI builders
* 1.1 C language based
* 1.2 C# based
* 1.3 C++ based
* 1.4 Objective-C / Swift based
* 1.5 Java based
* 1.6 HTML/JavaScript based
* 1.7 Object Pascal based
* 1.8 Flutter framework based
* 1.9 Tk framework based
* 1.10 Visual Basic based
* 1.11 Other tools
* 2 List of development environments
* 2.1 IDEs with GUI builders (RAD IDEs)
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## List of GUI builders

### C language based

* GTK / Glade Interface Designer
* Motif
* XForms (toolkit) fdesign
* Intrinsics

### C# based

* UWP / Windows Presentation Foundation / WinForms
* Microsoft Visual Studio XAML Editor, XAML based GUI layout
* Microsoft Expression Blend
* SharpDevelop
* Xamarin.Forms / .NET Core
* Xamarin Studio

### C++ based

* UWP / Windows Presentation Foundation / WinForms
* Microsoft Visual Studio XAML Editor, XAML based GUI layout
* Microsoft Blend
* Qt (toolkit)
* Qt Creator
* FLTK
* FLUID
* JUCE
* Projucer
* U++
* theIDE
* wxWidgets
* wxGlade
* wxFormBuilder
* wxCrafter (plugin for CodeLite)

### Objective-C / Swift based

* Cocoa (modern) and Carbon (deprecated).
* Xcode
* GNUstep (formerly OpenStep)
* Gorm

### Java based

* Android Studio, XML-based GUI layout
* NetBeans GUI design tool
* SceneBuilder[1]

### HTML/JavaScript based

* DreamWeaver from Adobe (Web Application User Interface Builders) — Obsolete as of 2022
* Apache Cordova / PhoneGap

### Object Pascal based

* Delphi / VCL (Visual Component Library)
* Lazarus / LCL (Lazarus Component Library)

### Flutter framework based

* Flutter
* FlutterFlow,[2]
* FlutterStudio,[3]
* Nowa App builder,[4]

### Tk framework based

* Tk (framework)
* ActiveState Komodo (No longer[when?] has a GUI builder)

### Visual Basic based

* UWP / Windows Presentation Foundation / WinForms
* Microsoft Visual Studio XAML Editor, XAML based GUI layout
* Microsoft Expression Blend

### Other tools

* Adobe Animate
* App Inventor for Android
* AutoIt
* Axure RP
* Crank AMETEK Storyboard
* Creately
* Embedded Wizard
* GEM
* Interface Builder
* LucidChart
* OpenWindows
* Resource construction set
* Stetic
* Scaleform
* Wavemaker

## List of development environments

### IDEs with GUI builders (RAD IDEs)

* 4D
* ActiveState Komodo (No longer[when?] has a GUI builder)
* Android Studio
* Anjuta
* AutoIt3
* B4X
* C++Builder
* Crank AMETEK Storyboard
* Clarion
* Code
* CodeLite
* dBase
* Delphi/RAD Studio
* Embedded Wizard
* Eclipse
* Gambas
* IntelliJ IDEA
* InForm
* JDeveloper
* KDevelop
* LabWindows/CVI
* LANSA
* Lazarus
* Liberty BASIC
* Microsoft Visual Studio
* MonoDevelop
* MSEide+MSEgui
* MyEclipse
* NetBeans
* OutSystems
* PascalABC.NET
* Projucer
* Purebasic
* Qt Creator
* SharpDevelop
* Softwell Maker
* U++
* VisualFBEditor[5]
* VB6
* WinFBE
* Xcode
* Xojo

## See also

* Rapid application development (RAD)
* Human interface guidelines (HIG)
* Human interface device
* User interface markup language
* User interface modeling
* Design-Oriented Programming
* Linux on the desktop

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Widgets (List of …)

Command input|

* Adjustment handle
* Button
* Context menu
* Drop-down list
* Hamburger button
* Menu
* Pie menu

Data input-output|

* Checkbox
* Color picker
* Combo box
* Cycle button
* Date picker
* Grid view
* Light switch
* List box
* List builder
* Radio button
* Scrollbar
* Search box
* Slider
* Spinner
* Text box

Informational|

* Balloon help
* Head-up display in computing
* Head-up display in video games
* Icon
* Infobar
* Label
* Loading screen
* Progress indicator
* Progress bar
* Splash screen
* Throbber
* Sidebar
* Status bar
* Toast
* Tooltip

Containers|

* Accordion
* Tree view
* Client-Side Decoration
* Disclosure widget
* Frame/Fieldset
* Menu bar
* Panel
* Popover
* Ribbon
* Tab
* Toolbar
* Window
* Window decoration
* Workspace

Navigational|

* Address bar
* Breadcrumb
* Hyperlink
* Navigation bar
* Virtual desktop

Special windows|

* Alert dialog box
* Dialog box
* File dialog
* Inspector window
* Modal window
* Palette window

Related concepts|

* File viewer
* List of graphical user interface elements
* Layout manager
* Look and feel
* Mouseover
* Widget toolkit
* WIMP

## References

1. ↑ "Scene Builder". https://gluonhq.com/products/scene-builder/.
2. ↑ "FlutterFlow - Build Native Apps Visually". https://flutterflow.io/.
3. ↑ "FlutterStudio". https://flutterstudio.app/.
4. ↑ "FALL IN LOVE WITH BUILDING APPS". https://nowa.dev/.
5. ↑ Speed, Richard (2022-05-06). "RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha". https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/06/rad_basic_alpha_3/. "RAD Basic is not the only game in town. Alternatives in varying stages of development include twinBASIC, which also aims to be backward compatible with VB6 and VBA; and FreeBASIC, which implements much of what lurked in Microsoft QuickBASIC (and has a nifty IDE in the form of VisualFBEditor)."

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