Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: netbeans Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:12:20 -0400 Organization: The Wasteland Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4946 In article , Likux wrote: > > Just to clarify: Did you create a "Java Desktop Application" or a > > "Java Application"? > * I created java application. > > > Did you delete any files ending in ".form"? They contain the design > > details. > * i didn't delete anything accept one class. > In the files/src folder you can find just 3 files and all of them have > .java extension. Nothing else is in the source folder. Sadly, if the corresponding ".form" files are missing, then the required design information is lost with them. My scratch project looks like this: $ ls guibuilder/src/temp/ Main.form Main.java If you have no backup and the loss is sufficiently recent, NetBeans' Local History may have a copy. > > Look for buttons labeled "Source and "Design". > * this is what i am looking for :-) I recall having to close and re-open a project occasionally in 6.8 to restore the buttons, but not in more recent versions. -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com