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The JBuilder1 designer did not have any idea about getContentPane or getViewport
being magical methods that need to be invoked in order to add things to the
container that requires them. Consequently , the designer could not design
JFrames, JDialogs or JApplets directly. It also had painting problems when
directly designing lightweight components, so designing JPanels was not very
much fun. People did discover a trick of designing the contentPane itself by
setting the ContentPane to a Panel, and then activating the designer on that
Panel. The designer handled lightweight components added to a heavyweight Panel.
Changing the definition of the contentPane from Panel to JPanel after done
designing would be a trivial last step.

Martin Folger wrote:

> > JBuilder 1.0 and Swing
>
> Hi
> I wonder whether it is possible (and a good idea) to use JBuilder 1.0 with
> swing classes.
> Is it possible to have swing controls (JButton etc.) treated by JBuilder 1.0
> like awt contols. I.e. can I drag and drop them while building applications?
> I thought it is possible, given that swing components are JavaBean compliant
> (?)
> but so far I failed to get anything done.
>
> Thank you
>
> Martin