GUI components creation idioms
King Lung Chiu <[email protected]>
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Hi again, Usually when I create a form, there are multiple components of the same type, eg. 5 combo boxes, or 5 text fields, and Netbeans creates a new variable for each of those components. I'd like to have them created as items in a data structure (eg. an array or ArrayList or HashMap of combo boxes),to make it easier to reference them later. Is there an automatic way to do that? My current workaround is to create the data structure myself (eg. EnumMap<FieldAttribute, JTextField>), and manually add the components to that data structure in each comopnent's post-creation code (in this case, maping each component to its corresponding enum value). However, this method doesn't scale when I have a large number of components to add. (lots of code copy + paste + small-edit). Any comments welcome, thanks King -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GUI-components-creation-idioms-tf2367563.html#a6595539 Sent from the Netbeans - UI mailing list archive at Nabble.com.