Is there a way to change the type of a component when using Matisse in NetBeans? I would like to switch a standard JDesktopPane to my own extended version. Thanks!
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all visual Components for Standalone Application(s) in Java are based on Swing,

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Yep, but Matisse just blocks all editing of the code that it manages so I cannot directly change the type of that component. And I can't find any way to do that in the GUI as well.. – Valerio Santinelli Aug 05 '11 at 15:05
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@Valerio Santinelli I think that there must be lots of problems how to overrode JSR296 (Matisse) back to the Swing, but plain Swing isn't WYSIWYG editor, – mKorbel Aug 05 '11 at 17:07
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You can change the type outside of NetBeans using a text editor, change the .form
and the .java
. Here is a similar question in the NetBeans forums with some answers.

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