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I use the "Post-Init code" etc. options of the Swing GUI designer when designing GUI's, to enable features not possible just with drag-and-drop. However, I found when I renamed a variable within a POJO using "Ctrl+R" from: public static final String tick = "\u2713"; to public static final String TICK = "\u2713"; it didn't update the places I'd used the variable within the GUI's "Post-Init code" etc. I had to manually go through the places my project tree was showing errors, and update by hand.
This works ok for me in: Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201111030600) Java: 1.7.0_01; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 21.1-b02 System: Windows Vista version 6.0 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nb)
This issue is still valid. > This works ok for me ... It works when the renamed variable is in the form. It doesn't work when it is in another Java class. The root of the problem seems to be in RefactoringPluginFactoryImpl.createInstance(). It ignores all renames of class elements outside form files - it performs explicit RefactoringInfo.isJavaFileOfForm(primaryFile) check. This issue gets fixed when this check is commented out, but such a change also means much higher involvement of GUI Builder's refactoring plugin in rename refactorings. So, it is a risky change because it is not clear whether other parts of form.refactoring module can handle renames in non-form files correctly. Hence, I am postponing this change to post-NB 7.1 builds.