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Bug 210470

Summary: auto form align netbeans
Product: guibuilder Reporter: onkar511
Component: CodeAssignee: issues@guibuilder <issues>
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 7.1.1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7 x64   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description onkar511 2012-03-31 05:39:16 UTC 
I'm trying to build a GUI application, and I've got a dialog box in which I want to have a panel containing a couple of rows that each consist of a dozen or so different components of different types (some labels, some text fields, checkboxes, combo boxes, etc). The problem is that when I move a component, it often either moves to a completely different place from where I'm trying to put it, or worse, it causes several other components to move as well. Sometimes it resizes the panel and/or the entire dialog, moving things way out to the right and off the work area so that I have to scroll over, move everything back, resize it back to something normal, and try again.
Comment 1 Tomas Pavek 2012-04-02 08:48:09 UTC 
When you see problems with unwanted components rearranging, it's better to use undo than trying to move things back.

For a bug report, we need an exact test case to reproduce. So if you encounter a problem please use undo, save the GUI form (i.e. we need the GUI form in its last good state) and then describe exactly the next step that leads to the bug (ideally take screenshot at the moment you're going to release the mouse button). Then please attach the original form + the description/screenshot to the bug report. Thanks.