Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Moving code in Netbeans Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 20:19:24 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <94dc4bfa-818d-43fc-b651-e8f3d5c0a293@googlegroups.com> <5755F82F.7090709@fastmail.fm> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7SK6yTFfqwlIPNBLl3l7Qg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34552 On 6/7/2016 7:44 AM, Eric Sosman wrote: > On 6/7/2016 12:16 AM, Dave wrote: >> On 06/06/2016 11:30 PM, Eric Sosman wrote: >>> [...] >>> It's still not clear (to me, anyhow) whether you're talking about >>> code generated by NB or code you wrote yourself. [...] >>> >> Actually, I was very clear. I'm creating a GUI, which means that some >> of the code is auto-created and located where NB wants to place them. I >> would like to restructure the class so all properties are together, all >> events are together, etc. How? > > It may surprise you to learn that "GUI code" is not synonymous with > "auto-generated code," and that the first does not imply the second. Yes. > As for getting NB to auto-generate code that meets your stylistic > preferences -- well, if there's a way to do so I'm not aware of it. Me neither. I am Eclipse user. And never use auto generated code for GUI. I really don't like GUI's at all. > But > it doesn't seem to me that anyone should care about the auto-generated > code's appearance; it seems akin to worrying about the appearance of the > JVM bytecode generated by the compiler. Although auto-generated code is > Java, it is not "source:" the source is the stuff the GUI design tool > takes in, and the auto-generated Java is "object code." Nobody is > expected to read it (except in extremis while chasing weird bugs), and > certainly nobody is expected to modify it. Hm. I believe that some GUI's actual used the code as source for GUI builder. It is almost a requirement for a bi-directional GUI builder where one can eithe ruse tool or manual edit the code, where the latter does not break the GUI builder (assuming you play nice). But NB used to be uni-directional and if it still is, then that logic does not apply. Arne