Netbeans Design View

[james kinyua]

Hae, am using netbeans to create GUI but i can`t go to design view in netbeans 8.0.2.
i have even tried netbeans 7.4 and it is the same.

[Ganish Patil]

Have you created JFrame in your project ?

[james kinyua]

yes. i have extended JFrame in my class

[Piet Souris]

hi James,

it's not enough to simply add a new class to your project, whether
you extend it to a JFrame, JPanel or not.
You have to specifically add "JFrame Form' or 'JPanel Form'. You can do this
when you right click your project or package in the project panel,
and choose for 'new'. There you see these options.

Greetz,
Piet

[james kinyua]

Thanks Piet.

The Design layout is now there but i have one more problem, i wanted to drag and drop Jlabels and JTextFields but i cannot see them.

[Ganish Patil]

Double click on a class file which extended JFrame or JPanel from NeatBeans, not hard coded by hand as Piet said, then right click on screen you will get a pop up menu.
In that Add From Palatte-->Swing Controls-->Label or whichever control you want. At the right side of the screen, below the close button of NetBeans, on 3rd row there is two tiny square brackets overlapping each other click on that you will see this Palatte window.
see these images you will get that though won't understand just search tutorials o youtube.