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When a UI form source file is open, the respective editor window has a Source view and a Design view. When the Source view is active, then after closing the project and reopening it (or the IDE), the editor window is has become a regular source window. The Source and Design buttons are gone. The source file has to be manually re-opened for the buttons to appear again.
closing a project also closes all opened project files so i can't reproduce this issue. pls also provide nb and os version info, thanks
As I wrote ("and reopening it"), the project needs to be reopened of course. This will also reopen the closed files. NB 6.9 FCS, Windows XP sP2.