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I added a JScrollPane and went to look at the horizontalScrollBarPolicy property. In the default configuration of the Form Editory. the Properties are now on the right-hand side of a larger Fom Editor window. The horizontal space for the properties and their values is not very large. I clicked on the combo box for the value of horizontalScrollBarPolicy and saw three items that were all identical. I was seeing the first 10 or so characters of HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS Notice that these value are all identical for the first 21 chars. The only way I could see the whole text was to resize my properties window. Two comments/suggestions about these values: A) since they are values of the horizontalScrollBarPolicy property the "HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_" text provides no value. B) the are literally the names of values from the code. The user of the Form Editor is more interesting in the concepts. It would be much more user friendly if they there values are spelled like: As Needed Never Always This is effectively what is done in for the values of the Anchor property in the GridBayLayout customizer as it uses North, East, etc. I'm sure the same issue appears in other parts of the Form Editor. The Form Editor should be checked for all such occurences of "geeky descriptions". I found another, not so serious occurence, with the values for a JDialog's defaultCloseOperation. They are: HIDE_ON_CLOSE DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 23610 ***
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.