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Re: Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file

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On 26/08/12 15:44, clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
> How can I modify the code automatically created by Netbeans. Some of
> that code appears to be uneditable.

You can't. It's created by NetBeans as determined by the properties of 
each of the palette components in the form. If you start making ad hoc 
changes to the code the relationship between the form and the code will 
be broken.

NetBeans provides you with many facilities to modify the code which is 
generated. Much of the functionality of the component is set in the 
Properties window for that component. The most flexible customization is 
in available in the "Code" tab of the Properties window. Here you can 
enter your own code at specific points during the 
construction/initialization steps of the component.

>
> Instead, I can copy the code, delete the form file it was in, and
> paste the code into a new class. But, the form disappears. At this
> code I have all the code, but I lose the "Design" view entirely.

Of course, by doing this you have explicitly broken the relationship 
between the form and the Java code created from it.

>
> Ok experts, what can I do.

Look at all the properties of the component and see if any of them can 
do what you require.

>
> The reason I want to do this is the Swing pallet (in design view)
> doesn't have things that I need such as modal window capabilities
> (jdialogs), and Jlayer capabilities (for a light box effect). Am I
> wrong about this.

If this is related to you other question regarding modal dialogs, then I 
would recommend you start here: 
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/dialog.html

The simplest modal dialog is the JOptionPane.

Otherwise you can create your own JDialog. This might be in the main 
GUI, as the "Other Components" section of the form, or a separate class 
auto-created by the "new JDialog form". A JDialog in the form editor 
does have the modal property, which is a toggle button in the main 
Properties for the object. I have no knowledge of JLayer, but you can 
probably do what you want via the Properties/Code tab of whatever 
component in the form is most suitable.

-- 
Nigel Wade

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Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file clusardi2k@aol.com - 2012-08-26 07:44 -0700
  Re: Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-26 10:50 -0400
  Re: Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-26 11:23 -0700
    Re: Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-08-26 20:40 -0700
      Re: Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-27 01:47 -0400
  Re: Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-26 14:54 -0400
  Re: Netbeans "form" code is uneditable unless copy/paste into new java file Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-09-03 10:39 +0100

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