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Thank for the quick response. I am comfortable in writing custom Delphi
components, but not yet in Java. It will be a while before I can jump on the
band wagon.

Thanh

Jason Burton wrote:

> > 1. I can set the property Border of a JButton to None at design time and
> > the border disappears. JBuilder Adds a line JButton1.SetBorder(null).
> > However I can't set it back at design time with a border. I can remove
> > the line JButton1.SetBorder(null) in the source pane and the border will
> > reappear. Am I missing something here.
>
> Nope, you're right.  The object inspector looks for all instances of a
> Border class when listing the available borders for your button.  Typically,
> there are no border instances created, so the only option is "none."  If you
> want a different border, you'll either have to add some Border classes to
> your component pallete and drop borders onto a form, or set custom borders
> in code.
>
> > 2. When I set the property of TooltipText of JButton1, it works fine
> > when the mouse is over it. When I reset the property of the ToolTipText
> > to nothing , JBuilder still leave the following line in the source code
> > jButton1.setToolTipText(""). This causes a small rectangle to appear
> > everytime the mouse is over JButton1 which isn't the right behaviour,
> > anybody runs into the same problem?.
>
> I couldn't imagine using Swing components directly.  I would subclass the
> button to eliminate this behavior.  The problem really seems like some sort
> of IDE limitation.  To get rid of the setToolTipText("") line, you would
> have to get the IDE to recognize the "default" property value (like Delphi),
> and leave out the setXXX method when the property value equals the default
> value.
>
> Jason Burton