Design pane
The Design pane is part of the UI Designer, one of JBuilder's visual design tools. You use the Design pane to design your program's user interface.
To display the Design pane and JBuilder's other visual design tools, select a visually designable Java file in the Navigation pane, such as a Frame, Panel, Applet, or Dialog file. Then, choose the Design tab at the bottom right of the AppBrowser window.
The UI Designer allows you to
- Directly manipulate the user interface layout and immediately see the results of layout managers.
- See the user interface that will result from source code.
- Use Two-Way Tools (TM) to keep the visual design of a visual component and its underlying source code in sync, whether you change the visual design or the source code.
- Modify layout properties and constraints for a container and its components.
- Create your own components.
See also:
Context-sensitive help: The AppBrowser window
User's Guide: The AppBrowser
User's Guide: Designing a user interface
User's Guide: Laying out your UI