wxFormBuilder Alternatives

wxFormBuilder is described as 'wxWidgets is an excellent framework that enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. There are several applications that help create dialogs visually, even so, some practical problems have led me to start the development of a' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to wxFormBuilder for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Online / Web-based and Windows Mobile. The best alternative is Glade, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wxFormBuilder are Zenity, easybashgui, Yad and KDialog.

wxFormBuilder alternatives are mainly Shells but may also be Form Builders. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of wxFormBuilder.

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Glade
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Free • Open Source
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16 alternatives to Glade
Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.
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Discontinued
The tool is not developed anymore as it cannot handle Gtk4.Instead Cambalache UI Maker is being developed but it still needs funding.
Zenity
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Free • Open Source
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20 alternatives to Zenity
Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
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1. PortableZenity can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Command line interfaceZenity either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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easybashgui
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Free • Open Source
Linux
20 alternatives to easybashgui
Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X...
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1. Command line interfaceeasybashgui either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Yad
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Free • Open Source
Linux
20 alternatives to Yad
Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.
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1. Support for scriptingYad supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
2. PortableYad can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
KDialog
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
21 alternatives to KDialog
kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).
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1. Command line interfaceKDialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
KDE
wxGlade
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Free • Open Source
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16 alternatives to wxGlade
wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.
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C++
whiptail
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
20 alternatives to whiptail
display dialog boxes from shell scripts.
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1. Command line interfacewhiptail either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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VisualWX
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Free • Open Source
Windows
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16 alternatives to VisualWX
Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.
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C++
Ruby
Discontinued
Last version seems to be VisualWx 0.87.6.0 Alfa April 13 2007, see http://visualwx.altervista.org/downloads.php. There is no version for Python 3.
wxDev-C++
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Bloodshed Dev-C++
15 alternatives to wxDev-C++
wxDev-C++ is an extension of Bloodshed Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer.
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C++
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 7.4.2, released in June 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Wolf Responsive Form Maker
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
13 alternatives to Wolf Responsive Form Maker
Wolf Responsive Form Maker is a drag and drop designer for creating web forms such as website contact forms, feedback forms, surveys and guestbooks.
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Contact Forms