Graphical user interface builder

User interfaces are commonly programmed using an event-driven architecture, so GUI builders also simplify creating event-driven code. This supporting code connects software widgets with the outgoing and incoming events that trigger the functions providing the application logic.

Some graphical user interface builders automatically generate all the source code for a graphical control element. Others, like Interface Builder or Glade Interface Designer, generate serialized object instances that are then loaded by the application.

List of GUI builders

C language based

• GTK, Glade Interface Designer
• Motif
• XForms (toolkit) fdesign
• Intrinsics

C# based

• UWP, Windows Presentation Foundation, WinForms
  • Microsoft Visual Studio XAML Editor, XAML based GUI layout
  • Microsoft Expression Blend
  • SharpDevelop
• Xamarin.Forms, .NET
  • Xamarin Studio

C++ based

• UWP, Windows Presentation Foundation, WinForms
  • Microsoft Visual Studio XAML Editor, XAML based GUI layout
  • Microsoft Blend
• Qt (software)
  • Qt Creator
• FLTK
  • FLUID
• JUCE
• U++
• wxWidgets
  • wxFormBuilder

Objective-C, Swift based

• Cocoa (modern, formerly OpenStep) and Carbon (deprecated).
  • Xcode
• GNUstep
  • Gorm

Java based

• Android Studio, XML-based GUI layout
• NetBeans GUI design tool

HTML–JavaScript based

• Adobe Dreamweaver

Python based

Object Pascal based

• Delphi, Visual Component Library (VCL)
• Lazarus, Lazarus Component Library (LCL)

Tk framework based

• Tk (software) for Tcl
  • Komodo Edit (No longer has a GUI builder)

Visual Basic based

• UWP, Windows Presentation Foundation, WinForms
  • Microsoft Visual Studio XAML Editor, XAML based GUI layout
  • Microsoft Expression Blend

Other tools

• Adobe Animate
• App Inventor for Android
• AutoIt
• Creately
• Embedded Wizard
• GEM
• Interface Builder
• LucidChart
• OpenWindows
• Resource construction set
• Stetic
• Scaleform
• Wavemaker