GUI Builder Palette

The GUI builder palette is organized into three palette tabs:

The AWT palette tab contains:
Text Label Single-line TextField Radio Button Panel List Scrollbar
Text Button Multiline TextField Checkbox/Radio Button Choice Canvas

The Panels palette tab contains:
GridBag Layout Panel Border Layout Panel Tabbed Folder Panel
Flow Layout Panel Card Layout Panel Scrolling Panel

The Additional palette tab contains:
Image Button Multiple Column List Generic Component Text List
Image Label Labeled Bar Multiline Label

Click on a component name for information about the component and its special attributes.


Attributes common to most components are described in the Attribute Editor discussion.

Additional information about the components can be found in the AWT documentation.

You can also add, delete, or move components in the palette or add more palette tabs. See Customizing the Component Palette for details. To add JavaBeans to the palette, see Importing Components.

See also:

Resizing a Component
Resizing the Layout
Customizing the Component Palette
Adding Custom Components and Windows
Generating Java Source Code
Adding Operations to Components

Visual Java GUI Builder API Documentation
Visual Java GUI Builder Runtime Packages
Class Hierarchy
Index of All Fields and Methods