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Form

The Form is a component to hold and layout components in one form. It uses java.awt.GridBagLayout as a default layout and instances of eu.beesoft.gaia.swing.form.CellConstraints as the component constraints (instead of the GridBagConstraints). Each inserted component has its border replaced by eu.beesoft.gaia.swing.form.EditableComponentBorder to show the user if component is editable. For editable components you can set the background color by method setEditableComponentBackground(Color) and border color by method setEditableComponentBorderColor(Color).

The Form instance has the ability to paint the horizontal and / or vertical lines around the component cells, if it is set in CellConstraints instance(s). CellConstraints is derived from GridBagConstraints and contains boolean variables for painting left border, top border, etc. This gives the "table" look to the form. The color of the cell borders can be set by method setCellBorderColor(Color).