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Toolbars

Toolbars provide shortcuts to often used commands.

Main Toolbar

This is the toolbar of JFormDesigner stand-alone edition. Many of the commands are also used in the toolbars of the IDE plug-ins.

	New Project	Creates a new project.
	Open Project	Opens an existing project.
	Project Properties	Displays the project properties.
	New Form	Creates a new form.
	Open Form	Opens an existing form.
	Save	Saves the active form and generates the Java source code for the form (if Java Code Generation is enabled in the Preferences).
	Save All	Saves all open forms and generates the Java source code for the forms (if Java Code Generation is enabled in the Preferences).
	Undo	Reverses your most recent editing action.
	Redo	Re-applies the editing action that has most recently been reversed by the Undo action.
	Cut	Cuts the selected components to the clipboard.
	Copy	Copies the selected components to the clipboard.
	Paste	Pastes the components in the clipboard to the selected container of the active form.
	Delete	Deletes the selected components.
	Test Form	Tests the active form. Creates live instances of the form in a new window. You can close that window by pressing the Esc key when the window has the focus. If your form contains more than one top-level component, use the drop-down menu to test another component.
		Allows you to change the look and feel of the components in the Design view.
	Refresh Designer	Refresh the Design view of the active form. Reloads all classes used by the form and recreates the form preview shown in the Design view. You can use this command, if you changed the code of a component used in the form to reload the component classes. But usually this is not necessary because JFormDesigner automatically reloads component classes.
		Allows you to change the locale of the form in the Design view. "(no locale)" is show if the form is not localized. Use Form > Externalize Strings to start localizing a form.
	Localize	Edit localization settings, resource bundle strings, create new locales or delete locales.
	Show Bindings View	Shows the Bindings view.
	Generate Java Code	Generates the Java code for the active form. Usually it's not necessary to use this command because when you save a form, the Java code will be also generated.
	Help Contents	Displays help topics.
	Classic Layout	Shows Properties view below Structure view.
	Wide Layout	Shows Properties and Structure views side by side.