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Client Properties

What is a client property?

Swings base class for all components, javax.swing.JComponent, provides following methods that allows you to set and get user-defined properties:

   public final Object getClientProperty(Object key);
   public final void putClientProperty(Object key, Object value);

Some Swing components use client properties to change their behavior. E.g. for JLabel you can disable HTML display with label.putClientProperty("html.disable", Boolean.TRUE); You can use client properties to store any information in components. Visit Finally... Client Properties You Can Use on Ben Galbraith's Blog for a use case.

Define client properties

You can define client properties on the Client Properties page in the Preferences dialog.

Edit client properties

If you've defined client properties, JFormDesigner shows them in the Properties view, where you can set the values of the client properties.