Re: Form inheritance in NetBeans

Rochelle Raccah <[email protected]> Thu, 29 May 2008 13:52:02 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I asked for something similar several years ago:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nbusers&msgNo=5188>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=nbdev&msgNo=7674>

I can't seem to find any issue filed for this, though.

Rochelle

Ales Kahanek wrote:
> Hi,
> I am pretty new to NetBeans and after several weeks of testing I have to
> admit, that NB is very cool. Thanks for the work! On the other hand I am
> very disappointed due to missing form inheritance. Did I miss something or
> the form inheritance is not possible with NB?
> 
> I can hardly imagine to write rich UI with lots of forms without form
> inheritance. Form inheritance is a big time saver with respect to
> maintenance of all the forms in a big application.
> 
> I have 2 questions:
> 1. Are there any plans to support forms inheritance in the future?
> 2. What kind of approach do you use now to make maintenance of multiple
> forms as easy as possible?
> 
> Thank for any hints.
> Ales