Problem in Forte IDE

Question

In my Application i have 10 beans and among these beans one is the main Bean called the Designer . This designer bean extends JPanel and its layout is set to null. i place the other beans on this designer where all the beans extend JLabel. This is working fine in JBuilder 4.0 . i am getting problem in Forte 2.0. The problem is that when i try to drop a bean on the Designer it is getting added to the Frame instead of Designer . can anyone tell the reason or suggest a solution to the problem . It is urgent and any help is appreciated.
with Regards
mvg

Answer 1

Hi MVG
You may try this
1. Add To your bean method like
public java.awt.Container contentPanel()
  //innerPanel is some contained container (usally
  //JPanel) you need to add into your container bean.
  //It has to be empty with some kind of LayoutManager
  return innerPanel;
}2. In the getBeanDescriptor method of the bean's
BeanInfo class:
public java.bean.BeanDescriptor getBeanDescriptor()
  java.bean.BeanDescriptor rv;
  rv = new java.bean.BeanDescriptor(yourBean.clsss);
  //Here is the punch line
  rv.setValue("containerDelegate","contentPanel"); 
  return rv;
}Notes:
a. The key "containerDelegate" is a must, on the other hand the name "contentPanel" is not pre-request as long
as the names in the bean class and in the BeanInfo are
the same.
b. This works for NetBeans, since Forte is build around NetBeans I guess it should work in Forte too.
HTH,
Yair