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2010-06-26 4 Comments
Hello and welcome to the JFormDesigner / FormDev blog.
In this blog we'll inform you about new JFormDesigner releases, new features, enhancements, future development, product announcements and company news. We'll also post articles and tips & tricks around JFormDesigner.
You've probably noticed it. Our website has a new style. Hope you like it. We've also migrated our website to a new modern open-source CMS, which powers this blog. It also makes it easier for us to write new and update existing content.
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2010-06-28 00:27 (2 months ago) -
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2010-06-28 15:10 (2 months ago)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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2010-07-15 19:55 (2 months ago)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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2010-07-22 18:19 (2 months ago)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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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