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Created attachment 114951 [details] Screen shot of default bounds property in Mac for a Label component The default bounds property in my IDE is not [0,0,0,0] for any of the components. I am running it on a Mac Lion OS. See the screen shot attached for example of the bounds set for a label component for example. I also have netbeans installed on a Windows computer and a linux VM. They both show bounds of [0,0,0,0]. As far as I know, I did not knowingly change anything to change the bounds property.
You can/should ignore the 'bounds' property. It is not meant to be set in GUI Builder especially when you don't use null/Absolute layout. In fact, if everything worked as it should then this property wouldn't be present in GUI Builder's list of properties. It is not present on Windows/Linux, but it is present on Mac OS as a consequence of a workaround of a serious bug in JDK 6 on Mac OS, see issue 157012 for details. Also note that the fact that the value of this property is not [0,0,0,0] doesn't mean that you set it. The value shown in Properties window is just actual value pulled from the component. The values that were set by the user (and for which the code is generated) are marked by bold label.