Description Jerry Lampi 2006-08-08 16:44:25 EDT

It would be great if VE had the ability to surround a bean by another bean.  The most rudimentary example of this would be to right-click a bean in the Java Beans tab and see a menu item labelled Surround with....  This would allow users to click, say, a JTable, and place it into a JScrollPane.  I often times just drop components onto the form, forgetting that they really should be enclosed in another container.  Even surrounding a simple JLabel by a JPanel would be highly desirous (because you dropped a label in a gridbag cell but realize that a panel with flowlayout was required, because more components were required in-line).

To see this in action, view the IDEA 6.0 demo.  I am not a user of IDEA, but this is where I saw it in action and thought it would make a great addition to VE.  View demo here: http://www.javalobby.org/eps/intellij_ui_designer/