Intellij Idea 13 UI Designer and automatic Gradle building

Question

I\'ve used the Intellij UI Designer to create forms for a project. Everything works fine when I\'m building with idea as it handles compiling the forms for me, but as we rec

Answer 1

So I made this a lot more complicated than needs be.

To make it work you need to change two things in your project.

A setting in IDEA 13.1.5

Settings -> GUI Designer -> Generate GUI into: Java source code

This makes IntelliJ IDEA add 3 methods into the bottom of your forms:

• $$$setupUI$$$()
• $$$setupUI$$$()
• $$$getRootComponent$$$()

If they are missing try recompiling your project after you change the setting.

Add the missing classes

Intellij has a jar called forms_rt.jar, and I found mine in {IntelliJ IDEA Root}\lib. And renamed it to "forms_rt-13.1.1.jar"

This needs to be included during compile time to your project. If you are using Gradle as I did you could copy it to {project root}/lib and add a flatfile repository like so:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    flatDir dirs: "${rootDir}/lib"
}

After that you need to include it in your project gradle file:

dependencies {
    compile name: 'forms_rt', version: '13.1.1'
}

After that it should be possible to build it both in IntelliJ IDEA and Gradle.