add overlay component to a existing form

[arminhaaf]

hi,

we are using idea formbuilder to create our UI's. Now i want to add an overlayable to a textfield to indicate a special state. I'm not sure how i can do this.
Because the textfield must be embedded in an Overlayable, i cannot just decorate it in code. I have to include a Overlayble (DefaultOverlayable) in the component hierarchy, so i have to include it in the formbuilder. To do this DefaultOverlayable must be a container, if i add now the textfield to the DefaultOverlayable it is not set as actual component. Is there a way to use Overlayable in idea formbuilder?

[JIDE Support]

Unfortunately I don't think you can use overlayable inside a gui builder due to the design of the overlayable. You willl have to do modify the code by hand.

Thanks,

[arminhaaf]

I don't think it is possible to modify by hand only, I think it is needed to do the whole ui stuff by hand when using overlayable.

Or have you an idea how to include the overlayable into a existing resp. generated ui ?

[JIDE Support]

Maybe you can do it outside the gui-builder-generated code. After the panel is created, you find out the component, remove it from parent, add it to overlayable then add overlayable to its old parent. In the other word, let the gui builder generated code to create the UI first, then you modify the UI.

Thanks,