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Bug 191409

Summary:	Changing type of inserted component
Product:	guibuilder	Reporter:	Chiana
Component:	Code	Assignee:	issues@guibuilder <issues>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	-S1S-
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Chiana 2010-10-27 14:10:09 UTC

Don't know if this is the right way to do this, but one got to start somewhere...

What I like to have is the ability to change the type of an already inserted component, that is, if you have inserted an f.e. JTextField and then written a whole bunch of code for that, and then you suddenly reallize that what you should have used is a JFormattedTextField... The only way as I see it now to change that is to use wordpad or something similar useful and edit the .form file and that is not a particular safe method as if you do anything wrong you end up with redoing the entire component from scratch

Comment 1 Chiana 2010-12-08 13:11:02 UTC

Any news on this?

Comment 2 Chiana 2012-02-18 14:45:17 UTC

Still needs this...