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One of the things that makes form editing in VB/C# productive is the fact all you need to do when handling mnemonics is just add the "&" character before the letter, e.g. "Bro&wse..." (which would treat "w" as the mnemonic) It would be great if Matisse could do this autotically when editing the labels on buttons and menu items...i.e. allow to enter text with "&" and then upon committing the new text, remove it from the actual text property and updated the mnemonic property with the selected letter automatically. This would bring Matisse even more up in terms of productivity to VB-type form editors.
We already have this features, however it is available only for GUI forms running on the NetBeans platform (as plug-in modules). See issue 27009. This feature requires additional functionality which is not available in standard Java classes, but is too complicated to be generated into the user code directly. Hopefully it will be added to Java 7. Before that, it might also be part of JSR-296 which we plan to support. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 27009 ***