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<title>Palette Window</title>
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<h2>Palette Window</h2>
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<p><small><a href="#seealso">See Also</a></small>
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<p>The Palette window displays a list containing all of the components
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available for adding to the IDE's various editors. For GUI forms, the items
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available in the Palette include containers and other visual
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components, such as buttons, labels, menus, and panels.</p>
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<p>To open the Palette window, choose Window > Palette from the main
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<p>The Palette window view can be customized to alter the way items are sorted,
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to show or hide item names, or display different sized icons of the listed items.
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To customize the Palette window view, right-click anywhere in the Palette and
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choose the appropriate menu item from the contextual menu.</p>
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<li>Using the <b>Palette Manager</b>, you can add, remove,
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and organize Palette window components such as
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Swing components, AWT components, Layouts, and beans.</li>
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<dt><a name="seealso">See Also</a></dt>
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<dd><a href="../gui_overview.html">Working with the GUI Builder</a></dd>
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<dd><a href="../gui_designing.html">Designing Java GUIs with the GUI Builder</a></dd>
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<dd><a href="../gui_quickref.html">GUI Builder Tasks: Quick Reference</a></dd>
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