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Toolbars

Toolbars provides 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 switched on in the Preferences).
Save All Saves all open forms and generates the Java source code for the forms (if Java Code Generation is switched on 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. You can add other look and feels in the Preferences.
Show Diagonals Shows diagonals.
Squint Test Simulates evaluating a graphic layout by squinting your eyes. This tests legibility and whether the overall layout is a strong, clear layout. You can change the squint intensity in the Preferences.
Refresh 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. Use this command, if you changed the code of a component used in the form to reload the 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.
Generate Java Code Generates the Java code for the active form. Normally 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.

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