IDEA 4.0 package com.intelliJ.uiDesigner does not exist

[Tim McGuire]

If I debug my simple GUI project or run an ant build (with GUI output set to .java file instead of binary)
I get errors that package com.intelliJ.uiDesigner does not exist. I have fiddled with the project classpath to no avail.
Any hints?

[Chris Mathews]

I don't have any experience with IDEA's GUI Builder but my guess is that you need to include the forms_rt.jar in your ANT scripts build classpath. It can be found at IDEA_HOME\lib\forms_rt.jar.
Hopefully, somebody else that has actually used the GUI Builder will chime in with their thoughts...

[Gregg Bolinger]

Originally posted by Chris Mathews:
I don't have any experience with IDEA's GUI Builder but my guess is that you need to include the forms_rt.jar in your ANT scripts build classpath. It can be found at IDEA_HOME\lib\forms_rt.jar.
Hopefully, somebody else that has actually used the GUI Builder will chime in with their thoughts...

Yes, this is correct.

[Tim McGuire]

Thanks!,
Everyone was a lot happier after I put that forms_rt.jar in my project path AND my ant build path.
Did I miss something in the GUI builder tutorial? I can't find any mention of forms_rt. If you point me to how you knew this, I bet I'll find a bunch of other stuff there that I should know.

[Chris Mathews]

Originally posted by Tim McGuire:
Did I miss something in the GUI builder tutorial? I can't find any mention of forms_rt. If you point me to how you knew this, I bet I'll find a bunch of other stuff there that I should know.

I just looked through the contents of the jars in IDEA_HOME/lib and made the logical guess based on the jar name and content that forms_rt.jar was the one you wanted.
[ March 08, 2004: Message edited by: Chris Mathews ]