Managing projects - IntelliJ IDEA in Action - page 117

Configuring GUI Designer settings
The options in the GUI Designer settings panel pertain to IDEA 's GUI Designer
tool, which makes building user interfaces in Swing relatively painless. Using the
GUI Designer and configuring its options is covered in chapter 10.
Configuring project template defaults
When you create a new project, the initial settings are based on project template
settings maintained by IDEA . To edit these settings, select the File | Template
Project Settings command to reveal a subset of the Settings panel (figure 4.6).
IDEA lets you specify default settings for the compiler, version control, code style,
and GUI designer options. Once set, all new projects begin with these default set-
tings. Because the options in these panels are identical to those used when con-
figuring an existing project, we'll defer discussing them in detail until we come to
their usage throughout the topic.
Saving your project settings
IDEA automatically saves project settings, so there is no need (or opportunity) to
explicitly save your project. The newly defined settings are applied immedi-
ately, so you don't need to restart IDEA or close and reopen project to make
them effective.
Reopening a project
When you start IDEA , it automatically reopens the last project you worked on,
unless you've disabled the Reopen last project on startup option under IDEA 's
General settings. You can open an existing project by selecting the File | Open
Project command and selecting the IPR file corresponding to your project. Or, if
Figure 4.6 The Template Project Settings window lets you specify defaults for most project-specific
settings. These defaults are applied to all new projects you create.