JSpinner in Forte 4.0 CE GUI Editor

Question

Is there any way to integrate a JSpinner in (NetBeans/Forte/)SunOne 4.0 GUI Editor ?
The JSpinner class is in rt.jar, but is not visible as bean, and thus cannot be integrated in the GUI editor ?
Any idea would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Lo�c QUERAN

Answer 1

I just tried that and JSpinner isn't among the choices.
Forte's help says:
"If the beans you expect to see are not displayed, the required attribute Java-Bean: True is missing from the bean's entries in the JAR manifest."
That means extracting/editing/replacing the manifest.mf file in rt.jar to add a section like:
Name: javax/swing/JSpinner.class
Java-Bean: True
Anyway, what I've done in the past is design my Forte GUI with some other component in the JSpinner's place - I usually use a JComboBox. Then after Forte's initComponents() method has run replace it with mine.
JSpinner spin = new JSpinner( someSpinModel );
Container parent = placeHoldJCombo.getParent();
parent.remove( placeHoldJCombo );
parent.add( spin );Although I'll definitely try the manifest.mf edit step next time I need to use JSpinner. Thanks for pointing that out.