next step is to implement our first i/o

src/MasterWindowLayout.form

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <border type="none"/>
     <children>
       <grid id="6cdb1" binding="descriptionContainer" layout-manager="GridLayoutManager" row-count="1" column-count="1" same-size-horizontally="false" same-size-vertically="false" hgap="-1" vgap="-1">
-        <margin top="0" left="10" bottom="0" right="0"/>
+        <margin top="0" left="0" bottom="0" right="0"/>
         <constraints>
           <grid row="0" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="7" hsize-policy="3" anchor="8" fill="2" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false">
             <minimum-size width="300" height="-1"/>
@@ -19,7 +19,20 @@
         </constraints>
         <properties/>
         <border type="line" title="Description"/>
-        <children/>
+        <children>
+          <component id="a9cee" class="javax.swing.JTextPane" binding="descriptionField">
+            <constraints>
+              <grid row="0" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="6" anchor="0" fill="3" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false">
+                <preferred-size width="150" height="50"/>
+              </grid>
+            </constraints>
+            <properties>
+              <editable value="false"/>
+              <focusable value="false"/>
+              <text value="Select a mod from the list on the right to view more details, or to make changes to your installation."/>
+            </properties>
+          </component>
+        </children>
       </grid>
       <scrollpane id="ecc63" binding="modListScrollContainer">
         <constraints>