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Some kinds of problem occurred during loading a form are ignored or reported inadequately. However this happens very rarely, the user might be confused and have problems to find what's wrong. The user can also lose some data if he/she does not notice that anything was not loaded and saves the form. All errors during forms loading should be recognized and reported. The user should be informed about possible data loss. To achieve this we must make the form loading process more robust. All kind of errors must be handled and reported correctly (bad file format, missing component class, missing property editor class, etc). Especially the fact must be highlighted that the form loaded with errors should not be saved then due to possible data loss (of not loaded parts). See also http://form.netbeans.org/doc/design/nb34/ErrorsHandling_userview.html
Done.
verified in [nb_dev](20020315). Now, error handling is as good as possible. User is informed about error during loading form file. Some small problems arise(issue 21113, issue 21115) , but now all are fixed. Thanks for this feature.