better swing editor

[lost ember]

Is there any java swing xml editors? Maybe ones you would recommend

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[royal bough]

what xml are you editing?

I think swing doesn't use xml by default

[lost ember]

My bad i stated it wrong, im looking for api whixh would let me use xml to build it

[royal bough]

Does it need to be XML?

[lost ember]

Well it would make the code much cleaner

[royal bough]

I think with Swing, most people use tools like Eclipse WindowBuilder which is a GUI builder for editing code

with JavaFX, there's FXML/Scene Builder but I don't know of anything like that in Swing

[lost ember]

Im using intellij so no way to switching to eclipse

[royal bough]

there are also other tools (I think) but I don't know them, I just used WindowBuilder as an example (and it can also be used as a standalone application together with IntelliJ I think)

[lost ember]

btw, i could switch to javafx only if it has some sort of LAF like swing has, any idea on that?

[royal bough]

what do you mean with "some sort of look and feel like swing has"?

You can use custom files with JavaFX

[lost ember]

well i dont really want to setup custom theming myself, with swing i can just you smth like flatlaf

[royal bough]

I mean, there are some themes for JavaFX out there

for example https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx seems to exist

[lost ember]

you know what ill give it a try

[royal bough]

note that there may also be other themes