how to set components invisible in netbeans drag and drop design view

Question

I want to set components invisible in the netbeans design view and then show then from coding when some event occurs. Is it possible?

Answer 1

When you create NewJFrameForm using Netbeans, In Design view you can drag and drop all the components available in palette.

In order to set initially invisible / hidden at starting you have to do it manually. Click on source above, Now you can see generated source of that frame you designed. You will see constructor as:

public NewJFrame() {
        initComponents();
    }

Generated itself. now you have to put your own code to update like in my case i will set invisible my compnents like:

jPanel1.setVisible(false);

OR

specific components:

jButton1.setVisible(false);
jToggleButton1.setVisible(false);
jLabel1.setVisible(false);

if prefer this like:

public NewJFrame() {
        initComponents();
        mySettings();
    }
public void mySettings(){
//Hide or set initial Values of components
}

Note:

all your generated code is in

    initComponents();

you can not edit it in source, have to do it in design view