Development Status:
Under Develofpment

Development Environment:
Win32/Linux/Mac

License:
GPL

Development Tool:
Java JDK 1.5.0.XX

Target Operating System:
Open (Java Interpreter)

Audience:
Application Developers

Development Language:
English



  

The Abacus GUI Builder is a tool designed  to aid the application developer in delivering their applications faster to the market by removing the Java layout complexity with a WYSIWYG  and a simple XY layout.
Abacus Research developed the GUI Builder to aid their 50+ application programmers eliminate frustrating hours of complex layout user interface logic and thus simplifying each screen to an XY coordinate plane.

The Java GUI Builder is a WYSIWYG tool that allows the application developer to place UI Java swing components on the canvas and have it render exactly as you see on the screen.

Due to the various Java layouts, other Java GUI Builders are cumbersome and complicated, our goal was to simpifly the UI development task and help the application developer speed up UI creation. 

V 1.1  a set of JDBC database aware components was added to the class pallette.
   

    


Version 1.1 Flash Demos  
Tabbed Pane  
Alternate View of the tabbed pane  
JDBC View
 
Release v1.3 Sample
  

 
Version 1.5 Flash Demos  
User defined functions
  
Version 1.6 Flash Demos  
Importing Components (New)
  





 
             

File Releases, Updates, Downloads and Documentation

Package Version Date

Java UI Builder Distribution 1.61 Beta 0.01.61
 14 Sept 2005

Java UI Builder Distribution 1.6 0.01.6
 28 July 2005

Java UI Builder Distribution 1.51 0.01.51
 25 May 2005

Java UI Builder Distribution 1.5
 		0.01.40
 2 May 2005

Java UI Builder Distribution 1. 4
 0.01.40
 10 Feb 2005
Java UI Builder Distribution 1. 3
 0.01.30 22 Nov 2004
Java UI Builder Distribution 1.2  0.01.20 28 Sep 2004
Java UI Builder Distribution 1.1  All included 0.01.10 29 June 2004
Java UI Builder Distribution 1.0 0.01.00 1 May  2004
Java UI  Source Pkg 1.0
 0.01.00 1 May  2004
Java GUI  Builder User  Documentation
 0.01.00 1 May 2004

These are the latest updates to the  source code, documentation  and binaries.

All released binaries work under  Windows and Linux. Make sure you compile using  with the JDK 1.5.X or greater.

To compile the source, download the latest source bundle or checkout the latest version of the code via anonymous CVS. An overview of the source tree can be found here.

The Following components are used by DC

Component Required Files
Merlin Font dialog  
IBM Code Formatter
 cf.jar
Electric XML exml.jar
Comedia Utils v1.1 cutil.jar
Comedia Beans v1.1 cbeans.jar

Before trying to compile or run, download and place the jars somewhere
in your classpath. Here is an example of setting up the classpath:

On Unix:
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$DC_JARS\EXML.jar
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$DC_JARS\cf.jar
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$DC_JARS\cbeans.jar
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$DC_JAR\cutils.jar

On Windows:
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%DC_JARS%\EXML.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%DC_JARS%\cf.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%DC_JARS%\cbeans.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%DC_JARS%\cutils.jar

Note : DC_JARS specifies the location of the jar files.

To start up the AbaGUIBuilder from the command line type:
java -Xms128m -Xmx384m ch.abacus.designcockpit.ide.DesignCockpit

Anonymous CVS


Login first with:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@www.openabacus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login

CVS will prompt you for a login, enter “anonymous” with no password.

Now you can checkout the code:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@www.openabacus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot co dc