Question

I'm looking for software to facilitate GUI design. There are many good questions on this topic already, but none contain what I need:

1. XP style, not stencil/sketch/wireframe/mockup.
2. Custom widgets, because we use more than standard GUI elements.
3. Save as templates, to use for other screens later.
4. snap-to other elements (ForeUI does this brilliantly).
5. Export to graphic (JPG/PNG).
6. Export to XML or SWT.
7. nice-to-have: Export to Word as documentation (Axure does this).

Answer 1

I think the ForeUI tool you mentioned already meet most of your requirements.

For XP style: http://www.foreui.com/hl/feature_skinnable.htm

It also support user defined widgets. The lacking things may be the XML/SWT/Word exporting.

Answer 2

I don't think it'll do everything you want, but have you looked at MS C# Express editions.

It might be a bit over the top, but it can do a lot of what you want.

If you create a WinForms application you'll get:

1. XP style
2. Custom widgets - but you need to write code
3. Snap to other elements

I've not looked at the export features, but you can run the application and take a screen shot that way.