Hi, I just want to know is there any Java development tool that have the drag and drop function such as drag and drop the button to the applet or an interface. Because whenever I try to write a simple applet, coordinate make me confuse always, and it is quite hard to handle.

I don't use 'drop and plop' GUI creators because the code it creates is typically horrible, but I believe all the major IDEs have this functionality. I'm nearly positive JBuilder has one.

If the coding generated by drag and drop IDE is horrible, so how you manage to take full control of the coordinates within the applet? I mean when you try to draw some few ovals or any other objects to applet at different location, how you know that the coordinates that you specify is actually where you want the objects to be?

well you create a component, set its size, and overwrite its paintComponent method to draw the ovals. Their x/y coordinate is based on the 0,0 x/y coordinate of the component. Move the component and, of course, whatever you paint on it goes with it. If all you are doing is adding AWT/Swing components, then you don't have to overwrite the paint method..just add it to a container like normal. Overwriting the paint method is used only for custom components. I hope this makes sense.

Hi hlchuah77,
If you would like to make Java interface, you may try JFrameBuilder. The generated code is easy to maintain. but It doesn't support applet.

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Thanks ya Gator, and Pool.

I am not here for quite sometimes, anyway, thanks a lot for the opinion.