How to invoke the UI Designer?
I'm unable to find the GUI designer! The release notes say that adding idea.jar to my Project's libraries will enable it but even after adding this jar, I seem unable to figure out how to launch the designer.
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In Project View or Commander chooser New | UI Form from popup menu. Enter
form name and press Ok.
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Best regards,
Dmitry Peshehonov
JetBrains, Inc, http://www.intellij.com
I can't invoke the ui designer either.
No New|UI option found in popup menu.
I've add the idea.jar in my project's library setting.
It should be there, if you right click on your src tree in a package, choose new, and it should be there. Even without the idea.jar you can create a new form, but at runtime it gives an error.
I had the same problem. Not sure if this is the only way around it but here is what I did to get the UI Form option to show up. I uninstalled both the EAP build and 3.0.4, in addition I deleted my user settings directory. At this point, once I re-installed the EAP build the option for the UI Form is appeared.
I had installed the new EAP a number of times up until this point and the UI Form option would always be missing. My guess is that something is up when you are trying to reuse your existing user settings dir?? Try telling the installer to use a different user settings directory than you non-EAP install uses.
By the by this is on a Win XP box.
Matthew
I'm also unable to get the New UI menu option. I uninstalled build 818, deleted all personal settings, and installed 823. I created a brand new project with 823, and I don't get the option.
I'm running Win2k.
I wacked my preferences directory but it still doesn't work for me :(
Dmitry Peshehonov wrote:
That menu option is not present here. This is build 823 under windows
2000. I downloaded idea823.zip and didn't use the installer, could there
be a problem there? I ask this because I don't see the ui builder in the
plugin directory and I expected it there...
Regards,
Bas
Right-click on a package in Project view -> Select "New" -> the very last
option should be "UI Form". They didn't distribute as a plugin this time.
I'm assuming it's in the idea.jar since we have to add that to our project
classpath. Hopefully they will in the future.
"Bas Leijdekkers" <basleijdekkers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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After reading previous posts, it looks like you might need to use new system
and config folders (at least different than pre-eap releases. I've used the
same location for all the 8xx builds). Change those locations in idea.bat or
idea.lax.
"Bas Leijdekkers" <basleijdekkers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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For my part, I totally deleted the existing system and config folders before installing 823. Still no UI option.
I have no UI Form option, the only thing I can create a new thing of is
a class, a file, an interface or a package. This is after creating a new
config folder. Maybe I will try to use the installer version and see if
that helps.
Thanks,
Bas
Brad Lane wrote:
>>Dmitry Peshehonov wrote:
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>>>In Project View or Commander chooser New | UI Form from popup menu.
>>>form name and press Ok.
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>>That menu option is not present here. This is build 823 under windows
>>2000. I downloaded idea823.zip and didn't use the installer, could there
>>be a problem there? I ask this because I don't see the ui builder in the
>>plugin directory and I expected it there...
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>>Regards,
>>Bas
just in case you didn't see...
The new 'form' option is below the normal four new things to add (class, file, interface or package) at the bottom of the pop-up, under the spacer line.
hth
I attached the menu I see to this message. This is what I see using
build 828, no 'form' option is visible...
mcalex wrote:
Attachment(s):
new_menu.png
Using build 859 I get the same menu, without New | UI Form. Has anyone found a solution?
Thomas Saxtoft wrote:
That's bug http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=13800
Copy the file "UI Form.form.ft" in idea.jar to your
.IntelliJIdea\config\fileTemplates directory and remove the .ft
extension. That worked for me, I didn't even have to restart IDEA.
Bas
I can definately confirm that UI designer does not work for 833, 856 and 859. No adding form_rt.jar nor any other action made the menu item show up.
I think the developers should really look into the subject. It does not work (8+ different machines, 2 people trying about 50+ installation attempts per version). IT DOES NOT WORK.
Please, don't assume it does and all the people here are stupid or unable to install.
To be precise: I have seen it on one machine under 823.
"Wolf Rogner" <no_mail@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
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859. No adding form_rt.jar nor any other action made the menu item show up.
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work (8+ different machines, 2 people trying about 50+ installation attempts
per version). IT DOES NOT WORK.
I'm currently investigating the issue, but still unable to find the source
of the problem.
Could you please detail where did you install 859?
If you have instaled IDEA to the path containing spaces, this bug with UI
designer template is fixed in 865.
"Evgueny Vigdorchik" <ven@intellij.com> wrote in message
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