The content pane displays all opened files as a set of tabs. To open a file in the content pane, double-click it in the project pane, or select it and press Enter.
You can open files from different projects at the same time, but only one project displays in the project pane. To switch between projects, select it from the project toolbar's drop-down list or the Window menu. The name of each file is displayed on its tab at the top of the file in the content pane. When you click on a tab, that file becomes the current file, and its project becomes the active project in the project pane. To customize the content pane tabs, select Tools|IDE Options and change the settings on the Browser page.
The content pane also lets you split the source view of a file into two or more vertical or horizontal panes. This setting applies to an individual file, not to all the opened files in the content pane. You can have a different configuration for every opened file.
To split the view into panes, right-click in the content pane when the Source tab is selected and choose either Split Vertically or Split Horizontally. To return a split view to one pane, right-click in each source pane and choose Close View.
The content pane gives you access to various file views and operations by way of the file view tabs shown at the bottom of each file window. The tabbed pages that are available in the content pane depend on what kind of file you have selected in the project pane. Only tabs appropriate to the opened file will appear below its window in the content pane.
File view tabs
Tab name | Description |
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Source | The Source tab displays the source code of the opened file in the editor. |
Design | The Design tab displays the UI designer for the opened file. In the UI designer you can see how the code displays in the user interface, manipulate layouts, create components, use Two-Way Tools, and modify layout properties. |
Bean | The Bean tab exposes the BeansExpress Property, Event, BeanInfo, and Property Editor designers. Use them to add properties and events to your bean, choose what properties are exposed, and create custom property editors.The Bean tab is read-only in JBuilder Personal. |
UML | The UML tab displays a UML browser for viewing and navigating UML diagrams of the selected class or package. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. |
Doc | The Doc tab shows the API reference documentation (if available) for the class that is opened in the content pane. |
History | The History tab displays information that helps you manage revisions of files. It displays the source code of the active file and a revision list of previous versions of the file. The features of the history pane vary by JBuilder edition. |
View | The View tab displays the opened HTML, XML, or image file in a browser or image viewer in the content pane. To view XML files, the Enable Browser View option must be enabled on the XML page of the IDE Options dialog box (Tools|IDE Options|XML). Viewing XML files is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. |
Web View | The Web View tab displays the output from your running web file, such as JSPs, servlets, SHTML, and HTML. For JSPs, the Web View tab displays the output from your running JSP. For servlets, this tab displays the output from the running servlet in parsed HTML. This is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. |
Web View Source | The Web View Source tab displays raw HTML in the content pane. This is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. |
WebApp DD Editor | Displays an editor for the web.xml deployment descriptor file of a WebApp. This is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. |
Transform View | The Transform View tab displays a browser view of the transformed XML document with an XSL stylesheet applied if available. This is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. |
Transform View Source | The Transform View Source tab displays the source code of the transformed XML document. This is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. |
EJB Designer | The EJB Designer tab displays the EJB Designer, which you use to create EJB 2.0 components. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. |
EJB DD Source | The EJB DD Source tab displays the source code of the deployment descriptors JBuilder creates for you as you build your enterprise beans. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. |
EJB DD Editor | The EJB DD Editor tab displays the Deployment Descriptor editor. You use the Deployment Descriptor editor to make changes to an EJB's deployment descriptors. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. |
The project pane is displayed to the upper left of the content pane. It shows the open project and the files and images that are in the project.
The structure pane is displayed below the project pane. It shows the structure of the file selected in the project pane.
Various processes are displayed in the message pane, such as search results, the debugger, compiler errors and warnings, unit testing, refactoring code, and version control.
You can search in the project, structure, and message panes by moving focus to the pane and typing. The closest match is highlighted in the pane.
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