Using my own-designed buttons & textboxes

[tagger]

Hi everyone,

I am new to Java Swing and need to develop an application using my own set of buttons, textboxes etc. (that I created using, let's say, MS Paint)

Please warn me if I am being vague. I want to explain it more by giving an example.

As a newbie, when I open Net Beans IDE, in the design tab, there is this menu called Palette.



Can I add another item consisting of buttons and textboxes, that are designed by me, to this menu?

[Fubarable]

Check your NetBeans help files and it will tell you how you can add custom components to the NetBeans palette via the Palette Manager. I wouldn't attempt anything like this though until I understood Swing quite well, including how to create Swing GUI's by hand without using NetBean's drag and drop.

[tagger]

Just one more question. From what I understood after a little search on google, I need to have the definitions for such a component as a jar file. Can anyone give me an example so I look and try to imitate.