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is it possible to easily build a GUI mockup?

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Edvard:
CogTool has UI mockups and something called "predictive human performance modeling" which basically means it evaluates whether your design is going to be easy or difficult to use, according to some algorithms:
http://cogtool.com

Maybe the VBA features in MS Word?
-kunkel321 (March 07, 2015, 04:38 PM)
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Using the "Form Controls" tool in OpenOffice and LibreOffice, you can place things like buttons, drop-down menus, listboxes, all kinds of standard GUI stuff, I wonder if you can do the same in Word?
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Form_Controls

There is no more free version of RAD Studio, no more free Delphi, C#, or C++ Builder.
I would recommend Lazarus as a good free replacement tool.
-app103 (March 07, 2015, 02:43 PM)
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In the veign of using a RAD tool, I can second Lazarus.  It's quite capable, cross-platform, and you don't need to write any code to make the widgets 'work' after compiling.  Check boxes will check, buttons will click, menus will drop, etc.

Qt has QtDesigner for simply making forms with UI elements, it's not not available standalone anymore, but is part of the QtCreator IDE:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt4-designer.html
To get it, unfortunately you have to download the whole stack:
http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.0/5.0.2/

If you like GTK2's look, try Glade:
https://glade.gnome.org
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glade/3.8/

...or the more minimal FLTK UI builder named Fluid: http://www.fltk.org/index.php
Sorry, can't find binary windows builds of it, but it is possible to compile for windows.  Maybe I'll give it a shot later on my Windows VM.

firace:
yes, something like this! how you created it?
-kalos (March 07, 2015, 07:10 AM)
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I used SmartGUI Creator, as it was lying on my HD. However, it's abandonware and there are much better tools, as suggested in the other posts.

Renegade:
If only a mockup is needed, then Eclipse is a good choice:

https://eclipse.org
-Renegade (March 07, 2015, 08:00 AM)
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Hm, I beg to disagree on that statement. Building a GUI using Eclipse has always been real close to a nightmare to me.
-Ath (March 07, 2015, 10:01 AM)
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Yeah... Eclipse is, well, Eclipse... But if you don't actually need to wire-up anything, and only need to create a visual, it's not that entirely miserable. Like, GTK gravity (and all that) is pretty bizarre when you first deal with it, but... it's just another way of dealing with a problem.

I'm sure that there are some people out there that would find Eclipse intuitive! ;D

Ath:
I'm sure that there are some people out there that would find Eclipse intuitive! ;D
-Renegade (March 08, 2015, 09:01 AM)
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Oh, don't get the impression that I don't like Eclipse: I prefer it over both Netbeans (a lot) and Visual Studio (any edition from VS2005 to VS2013), it's only the GUI-design part I resent, I'd probably use Delphi 7 for a mockup, and VS2010 for a real GUI-based application.

kalos:
can't anyone do it for me and then help me modify it?

I tried 3-4 GUI creators without any luck

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