Kirill made a good point, what is GraphicsPad and where are the screenshots? without further ado I give you GraphicsPad



Basically GraphicsPad is to GraphicsBuilder what groovyConsole is to Groovy, it will let you play with it while providing such niceties as syntax coloring, undo/redo, save/load scripts. Another option you'll have at your disposal is exporting the current drawing operations as a standalone script, for example here is the exported script from the previous screenshot
import java.awt.* import java.awt.geom.* import javax.swing.* //import org.jdesktop.swingx.geom.* import groovy.swing.SwingBuilder import groovy.swing.j2d.* def gb = new GraphicsBuilder() def graphicsOperation = gb.build { renderingHint( key: 'antialiasing', value: 'antialias on') rect( x: 10, y: 10, width: 120, height: 50, arcWidth: 20, arcHeight: 20, color: 'darkRed', strokeWidth: 3, fill: 'red' ) font( face: 'Helvetica', size: 30, style: Font.BOLD ) text( text: 'Groovy', x: 15, y: 18, color: 'white', fill: 'black' ) } def swing = SwingBuilder.build { frame( id: 'frame', title: 'SimpleDrawing', size: [600,480], locationRelativeTo: null ){ panel( new GraphicsPanel(), graphicsOperation: graphicsOperation ) } } swing.doLater { frame.visible = true }
Notice that the panel's title reflects the script's name. There are still some thinks I have to finish (like auto registering the extensions to the builder in the exported script) but expect the finished version to be shipped with the next version of the Groovy Windows NSIS Installer.

Keep on Groovying!