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Lori M Olson [TeamB] wrote:

> Paul Iddon wrote:
>>
>> Im new to Jbuilder and i was wondering why when I select the buttonGroup
>> component it does not show in my design, or in the final product.
> 
> A button group is just a conceptual object.  It is not a visual 
> component, per se.  It is used to add *behavior* to a set of (usually) 
> radio buttons, such that only one button can be "selected" at a time.
> 
> If you want to visually group your buttons, you need to create a panel 
> and add those buttons to the panel.  And maybe add a nice beveled, 
> titled border to the panel.

Just had an idea after all these years of
manually adding buttons to a button group:

Create a descendent of JPanel, override the
"addImpl(...)" method, calling super.addImpl(...),
and then adding the component, if an instanceof
JButton, to a ButtonGroup member.  Add a getButtonGroup()
method to the special panel.

There are other implementation details, but
that might be a good start.

This way, after adding this component to the
Palette, you could do what you want to do
in the Designer.


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