Quick Start Guide

The Quick Start Guide is a step-by-step lesson, designed to teach you how to rapidly and easily build a GUI (Graphical User Interface) using GuiGenie.
As an example, I will show you how to build a user login screen similar to the one below in one minute!

Step One:
Click on the "Project" menu and then choose "New". A dialog will popup asking you to choose a layout. Do not change the selected option (Absolute Positioning) and then click "Ok".

Step Two:
Remove all the initial buttons by clicking one of them and then clicking the "Delete" button three times.

Step Three:
The components you need to build the above example are: two JLabels, two JButtons, one JTextField and one JPasswordField.
Drag and drop these components from the "Panel" frame on the left of the screen. Position and resize these components by selecting them; then dragging or changing the corresponding spinners' values in the "Panel" frame.
Change the text of the labels and the buttons by selecting them and then editing the "Caption" field in the "Component" frame to the right.

Step Four:
Click on the "Build" tab (found directly under the toolbar) and then click on the "Preview Code". TADA!
Now you can save your code by clicking on the "Save Code" button (or you can just copy/paste the code).

 

Note: It is recommended that you use "Absolute Positioning" and not the other layouts in this version of GuiGenie.

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