Dialog Editor

Visual design tool for composing and editing dialog layouts. Dialogs are stored in a structured, property-driven model and can be serialized (e.g. JSON) and shown at runtime.

Module layout

The project is a Maven multi-module build:

Module	Artifact	Description
runtime	dialogeditor-runtime	Runtime model and APIs: DialogModel, ToolRegistry, PropertySet, EventSet, RunDialog. No UI beyond Swing types used by controls. See runtime/README.md.
designer	dialogeditor-designer	Design-time canvas: DesignSurface, selection, tool behaviors (pointer/place), property dialogs (dialog + generic fallback). Depends on runtime. See designer/README.md.
app	dialogeditor-app	Sample applications: full editor (sample package), minimal editor (sample2), and Main launcher. Depends on designer (and thus runtime).

Build from the root: ./mvnw clean install. Run the app: ./mvnw -pl app exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.wiseglobalsolutions.dialogeditor.Main or run the app JAR with main class com.wiseglobalsolutions.dialogeditor.Main.

Key features

• Visual dialog layout – Compose dialogs from a palette of controls; placement and resize on a design surface.
• Property- and event-driven – Control attributes and event handlers are stored in the model (props and events); the runtime and designer sync to/from Swing components via PropertySet and EventSet.
• Extensible – Register custom control types with ToolRegistry.add(ToolDef.of(...)); implement DesignSurfaceHost.openControlProperties for custom property dialogs.
• Run dialog – RunDialog.showDialog(owner, model, tools, eventSink) builds and shows the dialog from the model and wires events to your handler.

Intended use

• Authors designing setup or installer dialogs
• Applications that need a data-driven dialog model and a visual editor
• Embedding the runtime JAR to run dialogs without the editor; embedding the designer JAR to build an editor that uses your own tools and property UI