Main window

When you start JBuilder, the Main window appears at the top of the screen. The Main window contains:

See also:
AppBrowser panes, tabs, and icons
Getting Started with JBuilder: The Main window
Getting Started with JBuilder: The Component Inspector


Toolbar Icons

Icon Menu Equivalent Purpose

File|Open Opens a project, file, or package.
File|Close Closes the active window.
File|Save File Saves the active file.
File|Save All Saves all open projects and files, using the current names.
Edit|Undo Reinserts any characters you deleted, deletes any characters you inserted, replaces any characters you overwrite, or moves your cursor back to its prior position.
Edit|Redo Reverses the effects of an Undo.
Search|Find Searches for text within the active file.
Search|Replace Replaces specified text with other specified text in the current file.
Search|Search Again Finds the next occurrence of a search string in the current file.
Search|Browse Symbol Loads the specified class into the AppBrowser. The class must be on the imports path of the current file.
Run|Run Compiles and runs your application using the startup parameters specified in the Run/Debug page of the Project Properties dialog box.
Run|Debug Compiles your program and runs it in the Debugger using the startup parameters specified in the Run/Debug page of the Project Properties dialog box.
Build|Make Compiles any .java files within the selected node that have outdated or nonexistent .class files. Also compiles any of the node's imported files that the node depends on which have outdated or nonexistent .class files.
Build|Rebuild Compiles all .java files within the selected node, regardless of whether their .class files are outdated. Also compiles the imported files upon which the node depends, regardless of whether their .class files are outdated.