Inspector Window

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The Inspector window contains a tree view of the components on your current form. This includes visual components and containers, such as buttons, labels, menus, panels, and so on. It can also include non-visual components, such as timers and data sources.

By default, the Inspector window appears on the right side of the IDE whenever a Form Editor tab is selected in the Source Editor.

The root node of the Inspector window icon for root node contains two main subnodes of components in the form's class:

The tree view of the Inspector window is duplicated in the Filesystems window.

Use the Inspector window in conjunction with the Properties window, which also opens automatically whenever a Form Editor tab is selected in the Source Editor. The Properties window displays property information for the object selected in the Inspector window. You use the Properties window to examine and adjust properties of your components and layout managers, manage component event handlers, and define how code is generated.

When you set or modify the component properties, the changes are reflected in the Form Editor and the generated source code. For example, if you have a JLabel component on your form and you change its text property, you will see the new text on the label in the Form Editor tab and in the code in the source tab.

See Also
Editing Component Properties
Form Editor
Managing Component Events
Working With Source Code

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