Re: Copy and Paste JPanel custom component Netbeans 5.5

Please describe the copy/paste some more. In NB, to use your components, all you should have to do is either 1) Install them to the Palette or (in 6.0) 2) Drag the components class from the project files window. Copy/paste should work fine while you are in a form and copy one UI item or a few and paste them to the same form. Were you trying to copy/paste between two forms and had problems? I'm not sure about that use case necessarily.

Wade


----- Original Message ----
From: RichardF <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2007 6:02:16 AM
Subject: Re: [nbui] Copy and Paste JPanel custom component Netbeans 5.5



Hi,

Thanks for your responses.  Alas I have had no luck with any of your
suggestions.

I ensured each custom component (there are 2) had a default
 constructor,
with 1st line initComponents().

I even commented out all non generated code  (on both the custom
 components
and the main dialog) (imports, interface implementations, methods etc).
 
Still i get no luck.

I have tried clean and build - still nothing.

I tried creating a new empty JFrame form and Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V from my
 custom
components to the form - nothing happens.

Originally one of the components did have a custom constructor along
 with
customized initialization code (see
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2006/02/using_custom_sw.html).
After i removed the custom constructor (although I had to edit the main
dialog's .form file since i couldn't open the design to remove the
 'custom
creation code' and also removed the custom initialization code from the
initComponents method using a text editor).  This still didn't fix it.


Eventually (and relucantly!) I re-created the components and GUI
 elements
and then copied in the old code.

This worked and I was able to create a new dialog and copy and paste
 the
components onto the dialog.

Regards,
Rich.


ps. Apologies posting to the wrong forum ..... :blush:


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