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[NetBeans BlueJ build #200601251500] Steps to reproduce: 1.Create BlueJ or J2SE project 2.Create JFrame form 3.Push "Source" button (in Form toolbar) to switch view from Form view to Source code view 4.The Form toolbar disappears so that it is not possible to switch back to Form view. It is even not possible through popup menu on JFrame (in Projects view) - there are actions Open and Edit but both of them open the source editor.
Open & Edit actions work fine in BlueJ project but not in J2SE project.
Jaro, this is default Netbeans behaviour for situations where the source toolbar is hidden. it's a bit controversial and bugs have been filed for and against it. In bluej edition it was decided to limit the number of UI elements, thus we disabled the editor toolbar as well. The way to get back to form is either via shortcut, main menu, or enabling the editor toolbar.
Milosi, you probably didn't catch the main problem. Here it is: Create J2SE project and create new JFrame form in this project. In Form editor there is Source view button to see source - just push it. Now it is not possible to see GUI designer of this frame (I don't know the way how to display the Form Editor view for this form. Both Open & Edit actions in projects view open the form in source editor but not in form designer).
confirmed. Doing the same in bluej project works fine.. strange
additionally it also works in j2se projects when the form was created beforehand and was just opened. having it created seems to be the problem.
actually I just tried in netbeans 5.0 and the problem appears there as well. So it's not related to the bluej edition and since we are building on top of 5.0 binaries, there's no way to fix/workaround the problem. closing as wontfix.