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| <h1>Swing</h1> |
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| Create professional-looking Swing GUIs with automatic spacing and alignment. |
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| <h2>GUI Builder</h2> |
| <p>Design Swing GUIs by dragging and positioning GUI components |
| from a palette onto a canvas. The GUI builder automatically takes |
| care of the correct spacing and alignment. Click into JLabels, |
| JButtons, ButtonGroups, JTrees, JTextFields, ComboBoxes and |
| edit their properties directly in place.</p> |
| <p>You can use the GUI builder |
| to prototype GUIs right in front of customers.</p> |
| <a href="../../kb/docs/java/gui-functionality.html" class="arr-link"> |
| Introduction to GUI Building</a> |
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| Java GUI Applications Learning Trail</a> |
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| Designing a Swing GUI in NetBeans IDE</a> |
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| <h2>Component Palette</h2> |
| <p>The extensible Component Palette comes |
| with pre-installed Swing and AWT components |
| and includes a visual menu designer. Drag components |
| from the palette and drop them onto the canvas.</p> |
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| Navigator to view a component's tree and properties. </p> |
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| <h2>Visual Debugger</h2> |
| <p>Debug a Swing GUI application without looking into |
| the source code and control the execution flow in terms of |
| high-level structures.</p> |
| <p>Choose "Take GUI Snapshot" to make a screenshot of the application |
| GUI that serves as a basis of the Visual Debugger functionality.</p> |
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| Using the Visual Debugger in NetBeans IDE</a> |
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| <h2>NetBeans Platform</h2> |
| <p>The NetBeans Platform is a generic |
| framework for Java desktop applications. |
| It provides the "plumbing" that |
| every developer normally needs to write |
| themselves — saving state, connecting |
| actions to menu items, toolbar items |
| and keyboard shortcuts, window management, |
| and so on.</p> |
| <p>The NetBeans Platform provides all |
| of these out of the box. You don't |
| need to manually code these or other |
| basic application features yourself. |
| The NetBeans Platform does not add a |
| lot of overhead to your application — but |
| it can save a huge amount of time and work.</p> |
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| <li><a href="../../community/releases/81/index.html">NetBeans IDE 8.1 Release Page</a> for a list of highlighted features in the latest stable release.</li> |
| <li><a href="../../kb/trails/java-se.html">General Java Development Learning Trail</a> for tutorials that will help you get started.</li> |
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