Form Editor

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The Form Editor is a visual tool for creating and editing GUI code. A form is usually the container for all the items that make up a GUI. You can also have a form that is completely nonvisual, or you can have a form that serves as nonvisual storage for customized visual components.

To create a form, choose File and choose New from the main menu. Then expand the Java GUI Forms node and select a form template from the Choose Template pane. See Creating a New Form for more information.

When a new form is created, it is indicated by a Image of a form icon node in the Explorer. To open an existing form, you can do one of the following operations from the Explorer:

To edit the Java source of a form without having to load the form itself, right-click the form node from the Explorer and choose Edit from the contextual menu.

When a form is opened, the IDE switches to the GUI editing workspace and displays the Source Editor and Form Editor windows.

The Source Editor window displays the Java source for the current form.

The Form Editor window contains the Form Designer, the Component Inspector, and the Component Palette:

See Also
Form Designer
Component Inspector
Component Palette
Source Editor
Setting the Form Size

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