Comments

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  John Hurst

  2010-06-28 00:27:48

  Great!

  I hope this means that JFormDesigner is alive and well and will keep having new releases!

  With the kind-of uncertain status of Java Swing I wasn't sure whether JFormDesigner was still forging ahead. I, for one, am still more interested in Swing tooling than in JavaFX.

  Thanks

  John Hurst

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  Karl Tauber

  2010-06-28 15:10:23

  Sure, JFormDesigner is alive and we'll have a new major release in the next months. JFormDesigner 5 brings Beans Binding (JSR 295) support and many other new features.

  Then we're going to have shorter release cycles (2-3 months) for 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 with support for MiG Layout, NetBeans plug-in and JDeveloper plug-in.

  A lot of things were going on behind the scenes. We've migrated the entire JFormDesigner 5 code base to Java 5. We've moved our internal project and issue tracking system from Trac to Redmine. We have set up a new continuous integration server. And recently we've migrated our source code repositories from Subversion to Git. And thanks to SmartGit, it is a pleasure to use Git.

  Stay tuned!

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  Scott Anderson

  2010-07-15 19:55:07

  Karl, I'm trying to use the custom components capability and I've successfully added several properties to the custom components I've built. But one that isn't included in the examples and I can't quite figure out how to get into the BeanInfo is a file chooser. I'd like to add a property (PropertyDescriptor) to a custom component that is the result of a file chooser dialog. Have you an example or can you describe how you'd go about it?

  Thanks,

  Scott Anderson

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  Karl Tauber

  2010-07-22 18:19:44

  Scott,

  first of all, please send support requests to support@formdev.com.

  Anyway, after trying some ideas we've found a solution. The trick is to use JFileChooser directly as custom editor and call JFileChooser.setControlButtonsAreShown(false) to hide the OK and Cancel buttons.

  Here is an example:

  public class MyFileNameEditor extends java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport {
      @Override
      public boolean supportsCustomEditor() {
          return true;
      }
  
      @Override
      public Component getCustomEditor() {
          JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser() {
              @Override
              public void removeNotify() {
                  super.removeNotify();
  
                  // when dialog closes, update property editor value
                  File file = getSelectedFile();
                  setValue(file != null ? file.getAbsolutePath() : null);
              }
          };
          chooser.setControlButtonsAreShown(false);
          //TODO initialize selection; set other options if necessary
          return chooser;
      }
  }

  Hope this helps.

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  Claude Mansart

  2010-11-10 08:49:29

  Hello, I 'd like to use JForm designer as a plugin with Rational Application Developer 7.5. I cannot use it due to JRE compatibility "Sorry, but Jform designer does not support the IBM J9, Please use a sun JRE". Could you help me solving this issue, please? thanks

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  Ken

  2013-03-08 17:19:07

  Hi

  Any update on Mig Layout support? Current release is 5.2 but I still don't see support for it.

  Thnx K