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NeoWin Interface Designer — A Sneak Peek... 4/7/26

What if you could build modern, professional HTML interfaces for VisualNEO Win — without writing a single line of HTML?

The NeoWin Interface Designer (NWID) is an upcoming drag-and-drop layout tool that runs right inside VisualNEO Win. It gives you a visual canvas where you design your interface, wire up events, and export a fully working HTML runtime — all powered by VNW's scripting engine behind the scenes.

What You Get

25+ controls — buttons, text inputs, sliders, combo boxes, tables, tab controls, media players, tree views, progress steps, accordions, countdown timers, and more. Each one renders as clean, modern HTML with multiple theme support.

A real designer experience — snap-to-grid, alignment guides, multi-select, undo/redo, layers panel, container nesting, master pages, page transitions, and a full properties panel for every control. If you've used a form builder before, you'll feel right at home.

Variable binding — every control automatically generates VNW variables. Click a button? [btn_save.name] and [btn_save.event] are set before your subroutine fires. Change a slider? [sld_volume.value] has the number. No manual wiring needed. You can assign a VNW subroutine to any control and page enter and exit events...

JS Snippets Library — 130+ ready-to-use snippets across categories like Visual Effects, Hover Effects, Toggles, Timers, and Interactive widgets. Select a snippet, configure its parameters, click Insert. Done.

One-click export — hit Export and NWID generates runtime.html and runtime_subs.txt. Drop them into your VNW publication, add a rectangle with ezEdge, and your HTML interface is live. VNW handles the logic. HTML handles the looks.

The Big Idea

NWID doesn't replace VisualNEO Win — it extends it. VNW remains the brain: file I/O, databases, system calls, business logic. NWID gives it a modern face. Your users see a polished HTML interface. Your code stays in familiar VNW script.

Coming soon. Stay tuned.

Hello everyone, I took a break from creating plugins for VNW to try a little experiment creating VNW interfaces with HTML-JavaScript-CSS... built with vanilla ES6 JavaScript. This is my first compiled app with the Designer... A simple calculator app... I'm really excited about the possibilities this Designer has to offer. It should be completed before May 1st... Still have some testing & refinements to make...

So try the compiled Calculator App and let me know how it runs...
Below is a screen shot I took of the Designer and it's Media Player Control...

***Note to use the Designer you will need the ezEdge Browser Plugin: https://ezwarelab.com/product/ezedge-plugin/14
I purchased a few of Brad's plugin and they are all top-quality well designed plugins... Every serious VNW Developer should have the ezEdge Browser in their toolkit... (And the plugin has been discounted too...)

I was debating about announcing this Designer this soon... but I know it will work, and I also could use some feedback... This is a very complicated application with over 30,000 lines of code... I spent many hours, dozens of revisions... and squashed hundreds of bugs... I like where it's at now but there's still much to do... Hope you enjoy this and I hope you can see the potential...

Cheers

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luishp, Vadim and 3 other users have reacted to this post.
luishpVadimluizimpactband4uDarbdenral

@anthony-latorre looks impresive!

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luizraslDarbdenralAnthony LaTorre

Thank you Luis, I put a lot of work into. it... Not quite finished yet but I'm getting there...

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ErgoManluizrasl

Seems great. Waiting...

The Calculator works well here, using Windows 11.

Thanks.

 

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Anthony LaTorre

@anthony-latorre I agree with @luishp this looks impressive!

I can see from your picture you have put in quite a bit of work, very nice  ;)

If you need help with anything let me know..

thanks!

Brad

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luizAnthony LaTorre

Thanks Brad, appreciate that...