Fix Material Editor scrolling when content overflows window

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The Material Editor was not displaying scroll bars when content was cut off in small windows, making some material properties unreachable as shown in the issue screenshot.

Root Cause

The editorPanel component had a hardcoded preferredSize of (0, 0) which prevented the parent JScrollPane from calculating proper scroll requirements. When a JScrollPane contains a component with zero preferred size, it assumes there's no content to scroll.

Solution

Removed the hardcoded preferred size from editorPanel in both the form definition and generated Java code:

Before:

editorPanel.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(0, 0));

After:

// Line removed - let the panel calculate its preferred size naturally

This allows the editorPanel to calculate its preferred size based on its actual content (material property widgets), enabling the JScrollPane to show scrollbars when the content exceeds the viewport.

Impact

• Fixed: Scroll bars now appear when Material Editor content overflows the window
• Preserved: All existing functionality for normal-sized windows remains unchanged
• Minimal: Only removed the problematic hardcoded size constraint

The fix is surgical and maintains backward compatibility while restoring proper scrolling behavior.

Fixes #666.

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I believe the problem is that MaterialEditorTopComponent doesn't have a ScrollPane

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