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Netbeans: Recover .form file for GUI editing
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Jan Reimer
Jul 5, 2003, 6:46:14 AM7/5/03
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Hi!
I've built a little GUI interface with netbeans, but I've lost the .form
file that holds information about the GUI so that I can edit it with
netbeans directly. I only have the source-code of this GUI. I want to make
some changes to it with netbeans but it needs the .form file for this. Is
there any way to recover this file by building it from the source-code?
Thanks for help in advance,
Jan
I've built a little GUI interface with netbeans, but I've lost the .form
file that holds information about the GUI so that I can edit it with
netbeans directly. I only have the source-code of this GUI. I want to make
some changes to it with netbeans but it needs the .form file for this. Is
there any way to recover this file by building it from the source-code?
Thanks for help in advance,
Jan
Chris Esposito
Jul 6, 2003, 5:41:59 PM7/6/03
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"Jan Reimer" <j.re...@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:be6aeo$hcf$1...@news.uni-kl.de...
This question pops up from time to time, and unless there is something new
in NB 3.5 that I haven't noticed, the answer is still `no'. JDK 1.4.x has
new support for Swing serialization that will produce an XML-based external
representation of the UI, and the few times I have looked inside a .form
file it was also XML-based, but differences between them still probably
exist. Printing the UI source code and rebuilding it from scratch using the
source as a guide may be your best bet.
Chris
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