GUI Designer in Netbeans [Qt or GTK]

Question

I have been using Netbeans recently for developing Java applications especially Swing components and Design tab has been a boon.

I felt Swing component [jTable] was insufficient to my needs and so I thought of writing the application from scratch using GTK framework.

I installed the library like:

sudo apt-get install libjava-gnome-java

and everything is working fine. But I DO NOT FIND THE DESIGN tab anymore. It is just a console application which is invoking a window! Can we not change that? Is the Design tab available to only Swing framework? I have checked it with GTK so don't know much about Qt.

I was told Eclipse has a plugin for Qt [don't know...google search hinted me] but I would like to stick with Netbeans.

Is there anyway to 'ivoke' the Design tab for developing GTK or Qt appliations?

Answer 1

Is the Design tab available to only Swing framework?

The documentation for NetBeans says this:

"In the IDE you can create JFC/Swing or AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) forms, pre-built sample application skeletons, or any class that is based on the JavaBeans component architecture using the provided templates."

Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50453_01/doc.80/e50452/run_java_guis.htm

Apparently, the relevant templates are available for Qt. This page from the documentation includes a simple example of using the "Qt Designer" to create a form in NetBeans