Re: Changing JFrame components at runtime


lego_lax wrote:

Isn't it always? Every time I get the idea that maybe I can do something
faster in a gui designer I end up kicking myself and going back and
writing it by hand.

I think it is not possible using designers to construct GUI components
at runtime, such as array of components of not predefined dimension.

Sure it is. The screensaver component I was talking
about earlier*, produces GUI's that might look like this..
<https://screensavers.dev.java.net/config/#eg>

* It was was programmed using the NetBeans
form editor.

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