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A graphical user interface builder, or GUI builder, also known as GUI designer is a software development tool that simplifies the creation of GUIs by allowing the designer to arrange 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 code, with no visual feedback until the program is run.

User interfaces are commonly programmed using an event-driven architecture, so GUI builders also simplify creating event-driven code. This supporting code connects widgets with the outgoing and incoming events that trigger the functions providing the application logic.

List of GUI builders

• Cocoa/OpenStep
  • Interface Builder
• Fast, Light Toolkit
  • FLUID
• GNUstep
  • Gorm
• GTK+
  • Glade Interface Designer
  • Gazpacho
  • Gideon Designer
• Windows Presentation Foundation
  • Microsoft Expression Blend
• WxWidgets
  • WxGlade
  • wxFormBuilder
• Intrinsics
  • Motif
    • Builder Xcessory
    • Easymotif
    • ixbuild
    • UIMX
    • X-Designer
• Qt
  • Qt Designer
  • Ebuilder
  • Qt Architect
  • QtEZ
• GEM
  • Resource construction set
  • Interface by Shift Computer
  • ORCS (Otto's RCS)
  • K-Resource
  • Resource Master
  • Annabel Junior
  • WERCS by HiSoft
• OpenWindows
  • guide (GUI builder)
• XForms (toolkit)
  • fdesign
• Tk (framework)
  • GUI Builder
  • Visual Tcl

List of IDEs with GUI builders

• Anjuta
• CodeGear RAD Studio (former Borland Development Studio)
• Clarion
• NetBeans
• MonoDevelop

List of GUI builder plugins for IDEs

• NetBeans GUI design tool, formerly known as Matisse
• Visual Editor - A plugin for Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto)
• Himalia Guilder (for Visual Studio 2005)
• WxSmith (Code::Blocks plug-in)

Further reading

• Uwe Wirth (Ed.): "Interface", ein neues RCS von Shift. ST-Magazin (01/92).
• A. Goukassian (Ed.): Aktuelles. ST-Computer (01/97). (Mentioning ORCS.)
• A. Goukassian (Ed.): Resource Master 2.12. ST-Computer (04/98).
• Manfred Neumayer: Bella Annabel. ST-Magazin (11/91).
• ST-Computer (06/90) had an article comparing GEM RCS, GEM RCS 2, K-Resource 2 and WERCS [1].

See also

• User interface markup language
• User Interface Modeling

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