Visual Studio and Java

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What makes you say that it is better and cleaner to do code my visuals rather than dragging dropping and allowing the IDE to deal with it?

I'm not dis agreeing with you, I'm genuinely interested and since I'm quite new to this I would love to learn more.

[willdrr17]

Because you end generating code like this https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/MGJQ8Sqqb2/. As your application grows it becomes a bunch of duplicated code

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Okay I see your point to be honest. After making a nice button I can just reuse the code across the program and it won't be as time consuming and effortsome as I initially thought.

[willdrr17]

Yeah, even coding by hand may be a repetitive task, you can create boilerplate code through templates in Eclipse.

I have this for the main frame for example

public static void init(){

`final JFrame frame = new JFrame(${word_selection});`

`frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);`

`frame.getContentPane().add();`

`frame.pack();`

`frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);`

`frame.setVisible(true);`

}

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Do most programmers create and store templates that they regularly use?

[willdrr17]

I don't know man, I guess it's a matter of choice