Purpose: to gather into one place references and material regarding tools a developer might use to create the framework of an application with a GUI.

[Big needs: a statement about how much Tk developers do withOUT GUI builders; and brief status indications in regards to current support] [is there current support for any of these?]

adavis (28th July 2009) I'm still developing/supporting GRIDPLUS2. The most recent release was 6th February 2009 - I have a new release ready, for which I'm currently doing the finishing touches to the documentation.

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• Basic GUI Builder
• cbuild available in ClassyTk
• cells
• FriGUI
• GRIDPLUS2
• Gub
• GUIBuilder
• Iplace
• JTcl
• JX Development Suite
• Laying out widgets in a grid
• MetaGUI
• MyrmecoX
• PureTkGUI
• SpecTcl/SpecTix
• Spynergy Weblet Developer
• TixXf
• tkBuilder
• TKproE, perhaps, in 2005, the most current of these
• TkVSform
• VAD
• VisualGipsy
• Visual Tcl
• Wafe
• xf

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Sometimes, people recommend A poor mans GUI when a question about GUI Building Tools come up. Its form-based model applies to many (most?) GUI applications.

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Sometimes people confuse a GUI builder with an integrated development environment (aka IDE). A GUI builder typically is just about building the GUI, and seldom has debugging facilities, code management capabilities, etc. Eclipse is an IDE. Anyone know if it also includes a GUI builder?

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TV In general bwise is not a GUI or GUI builder tool, but as part of its functionality, it has strong gui building facilities, except not as average Tk program, but as part of its canvas. The Model view controller type of thinking is easily to follow and make with bwise, as in this simple example: A little multiplication toy .

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WJG If one is not confined to Tk UIs but considers other UI toolkits, there is also Glade [1] for Gnocl.

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