What is Projucer?
Projucer is an open-source application developed by Raw Material Software for designing GUI applications built with JUCE, a popular C++ framework for audio plugins and cross-platform desktop apps. It allows you to visually design UI components via a drag-and-drop editor and generate platform-specific project code for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
Some key features of Projucer include:
- Drag-and-drop GUI designer for quickly mocking up interfaces
- Support for designing common controls like buttons, sliders, text boxes, etc.
- Live preview to visualize how the interface will look
- Ability to define component properties via an inspector panel
- Exporters to generate IDE project files for Visual Studio, Xcode, Linux Makefiles, etc.
- Single codebase approach for creating cross-platform applications
- Integration with Juce modules for audio, graphics, network, etc.
- WYSIWYG approach - edit GUI visually instead of coding
Overall, Projucer simplifies the process of designing and building Juce-based GUI applications. Its visual designer streamlines interface creation compared to hand-coding, while seamlessly integrating with JUCE's features for creating desktop, mobile and audio apps. If building cross-platform apps with JUCE, Projucer is an essential tool to consider.
Microsoft Visual Studio, Apache NetBeans, Geany, PyCharm, Code::Blocks, Eclipse, Bloodshed Dev-C++, Xcode, Qt Creator, Graviton Editor, Aptana Studio, KDevelop are some alternatives to Projucer.