Hi, this title may not best describe my problem. I'm using Netbean GUI builder to create a JFrame and several JPanels. I create each JPanel in a seperate class, then I drag the JPanel class to JFrame. The problem is after dragging the JPanel to JFrame, if I add components to JPanel, it does not show the additional components in the JPanel contained in JFrame. I tried "clean and build" but the new component still not showing in JFrame -> JPanel.
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A:
I know what you mean; Matisse (NetBeans' GUI editor) lets you drag and drop self-assembled Containers (e.g. JPanels) into other Containers (e.g. JFrames), but any subsequent changes in the former will not be reflected in the latter. As far as I know, that's just the way it works, unfortunately.
It's one of the reasons I think Matisse can only be used for quick prototyping and toying around. For anything serious, the GUI must be hand-coded.
Joonas Pulakka
2010-02-24 07:34:37
A:
Matisse keeps a cached copy of any component you add to the palette. So, subsequent changes are not automatically picked up. To pick up the changes:
- save and close your JFrame source
- Make sure the JPanel component is compiled.
- Click
Tools > Palette > Swing/AWT Components - Right click on the tree and choose
Refresh - Open your JFrame component. It should now be showing the updated components
Devon_C_Miller
2010-02-25 16:33:39
Unfortunately, this method does not work on my NB6.8 (Mac)... Which NB did you test this method? Thanks!
Patrick
2010-02-27 22:08:22
NB6.8 on Windows XP. But, it's also worked for me on Ubuntu. Be sure to perform a full build otherwise you can wind up with one .class file in build/classes and a different one in the jar. Matisse will always use the one in the jar. Even if the one in build/classes is newer.
Devon_C_Miller
2010-03-01 16:06:28