JFormDesigner 9 EA for JavaFX

Early Access (EA) means that you can download and test-drive the latest builds of a future JFormDesigner release. This is preview software. Use it at your own risk.

New Features and Improvements

JFormDesigner 9 is in active development and not feature complete.

This is the first version that supports designing JavaFX forms.

Besides standard panes (GridPane, BorderPane, HBox, etc), it also supports MigPane, which is the JavaFX version of the well known MigLayout Swing layout manager. See also MigLayout White Paper. The MigPane library is available on Maven Central under following coordinates:
com.miglayout:miglayout-javafx:11.4.2.

Please email us suggestions for improvement to support@formdev.com. Thanks.

Getting started

To start designing JavaFX forms, create a new JFormDesigner form and select UI toolkit JavaFX in the New Form dialog.

This creates a JFormDesigner .jfd file (contains the form model used only in JFormDesigner) and a corresponding .java file that contains the generated Java code to create the JavaFX form.

FXML is not yet supported (planned for a later version).

Missing features / known bugs

  • Use own CSS in designer.
  • Support for AnchorPane, DialogPane, Pane, MenuBar, Menu, shapes and charts.
  • Possibility to change node type (e.g. CheckBox to RadioButton).
  • Possibility to convert layout (e.g. FlowPane to HBox).
  • Possibility to add event listeners.
  • Possibility to use binding.
  • In-place-edit text properties. E.g. label or button text property.
  • Properties view: Editors for some property types (e.g. color).
  • FXML
  • and more...

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IDE plugins

Eclipse

2023-03 (4.27) - 2025-12 (4.38)

Version: 9-ea8
Size: 15 MB
Date: 2026-01-28

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IntelliJ IDEA

2022.2 - 2025.3

Version: 9-ea8
Size: 11 MB
Date: 2026-01-28

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NetBeans

17 - 28

Version: 9-ea8
Size: 10 MB
Date: 2026-01-28

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Stand-alone

Windows

with JRE and JavaFX

Version: 9-ea8
Size: 66 MB
Date: 2026-01-28

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Installation Instructions

macOS

with JRE and JavaFX

Version: 9-ea8
Size: 163 MB
Date: 2026-01-28

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Linux

with JRE and JavaFX

Version: 9-ea8
Size: 81 MB
Date: 2026-01-28

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System Requirements

  • Java 17 - 25
  • JavaFX 17 - 25 (optional)
  • Eclipse plugin: Eclipse 2023-03 (4.27) - 2025-12 (4.38)
  • IntelliJ IDEA plugin: IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 - 2025.3
  • NetBeans plugin: NetBeans 17 - 28

License key

If you don't have a JFormDesigner license key, you can use following key to try out JavaFX Early Access:

Name: JavaFX Early Access
E-mail: support@formdev.com
Expiry date: 2026-03-31
Required version: JFormDesigner 9 (or later)
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Recent changes

Build: 9 Early Access 8

  • Support using any JavaFX runtime (see new preferences page "JavaFX").
  • No longer need to run the IDE on a JDK that includes JavaFX.
  • StandAlone edition no longer ship with JavaFX.
  • Bug fixes.

Build: 9 Early Access 7

  • Changes from JFormDesigner 8.3.
  • Require Java 17 or later to run JFormDesigner. (generated forms code still supports older Java versions)
  • Bug fixes.

Build: 9 Early Access 6

  • Changes from JFormDesigner 8.2.1.
  • Bug fixes.

Build: 9 Early Access 5

  • Changes from JFormDesigner 8.2.
  • Bug fixes.

Build: 9 Early Access 4

  • Changes from JFormDesigner 8.1 and 8.0.5.
  • Bug fixes.

Build: 9 Early Access 3

  • Eclipse plugin.
  • Added property editor for tooltip properties.
  • MigPane: Added Shrink action to column/row context menus.
  • Added actions to context menus to quickly modify some layout related properties:
    • BorderPane: for children: position, alignment
  • StandAlone: Updated bundled JRE and JavaFX to version 20.
  • Bug fixes.

Build: 9 Early Access 2

  • Support for Label.labelFor property: either edit in Properties view or right-click on label component and select from "Set labelFor" submenu.
  • Added actions to context menus to quickly modify some layout related properties:
    • FlowPane: for container: orientation, alignment, columnHalignment, rowValignment
    • GridPane: for container: alignment; for children: halignment, valignment, hgrow, vgrow
    • HBox: for container: alignment; for children: hgrow
    • SplitPane: for container: orientation
    • StackPane: for container: alignment; for children: alignment
    • TilePane: for container: alignment; for children: alignment
    • VBox: for container: alignment; for children: vgrow
  • Bug fixes.

Build: 9 Early Access 1

  • Initial JavaFX support.