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Create a form and put some components into it. Set the Code Generation to Serialize Save the form Customize the component outside of Netbeans Reload the form and see that Form Editor doesn`t change the component. On the other side Execution works OK (of course the code forces load the state from a file). Consequently the save action over the form rewrites the customized component with the old one.
it's tricky. In a sense the generated .ser file acts the same role as the generated java source. If one modifies them outside the scope of the form editor then these modifications will be overwritten the next time the form editor touches the form. This is "as-designed" for me.
Priority is changed to P4 (normal).