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 Filesystems window. To open an existing form, you can do one of the following operations from the Filesystems window:

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

When a form is opened, the IDE opens two tabs in the Source Editor:

The following windows also appear automatically whenever you select a Form Editor tab in the Source Editor:

See Also
Inspector Window
Palette Window
Source Editor
Setting the Form Size

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