Hi,

1) This is probably a tall order, but would it be impossibly
difficult to add event wiring ala visual age? For those 
less familiar, VA's Visual Composition Editor (VCE) draws
lines between components called connections, that represent 
events.  The components can also be 'connected' to non-visual
beans, etc.  

2) I never got a clear response on a question I submitted to 
the user mailing list about how to use the form editor, so I 
beg your pardon, but I'd like to ask it here:
How should the application code work with the form?  Let me
explain a bit.  

At almost all costs I would prefer never to 
mix hand-written code with generated code.  This had been 
a nightmare for me in the past, with the constant terror of 
my hand written stuff getting trashed directly by the 
IDE, or being made unusable because I've badly screwed up the 
generated code.

One way to avoid mixing generated code and hand written stuff
is to make all members of MyFormClass be protected.
a) how is this done?
b) Is there a better means of working with the form?
c) if not, why not make 'protected' the default?


Thanks