Re: Support for JFC/Swing visual JavaBean creation

Wade Chandler wrote:
> --- Edward Diener <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Despite the mention under the doc for creating
>> JavaBeans that there is a 
>> user interface for creating visual JavaBeans using a
>> JFC/Swing template, 
>>   I don't see any. Is this planned for any upcoming
>> release ?
>>
> 
> Swing classes are JPanel, JFrame, JWindow,
> JDialog...see a pattern...the beginning J.  When you
> go to create a new file in your project select the
> package, right click, New->File/Folder, Java GUI
> Forms, then select the Swing class you want to extend
> or create.  This has been in place and working for
> years.

OK, I was confused by the term "form", since I always though of 
"control" instead, whereas I always thought of a form as a window onto 
which controls and non-visual components are dropped.

I do see there is a Beans "form" from which I can derive my JavaBeans 
visual control.

Thanks for the heads up. I am glad that NetBeans has this functionality.