Archive for the ‘Netbeans’ Category
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
If you are building application on top of Netbeans Platform sooner or later you will deal with layer.xml. Layer.xml (Netbeans FAQ) is
Layer files are small XML files provided by modules, which define a virtual filesystem . The layer file defines folders and files that will be merged into the ...
Posted in Citra FX, Java, Netbeans | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Daniel Spiewak Javalobby post regarding Jasper Pott recent blog nimbus almost done. Jasper Pott blog quote:
Finally we are almost done with Nimbus and I am very pleased with the way it looks. There are many small details that need to be pollished ...
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Nimbus was drawn graphicaly in a new tool ...
Posted in Java, Netbeans | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
If you build an application on top of Netbeans Platform and wondering how to create the custom options or preferences panel (Menu Tool - Options), then this tutorial is for you.
This tutorial based on Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor that create custom Options Dialog for storing canvas related thing in Netbeans ...
Posted in Java, Netbeans, Sketsa | No Comments »
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Normally, using Netbeans Platform you have to use DataObject.find() and use the OpenCookie to open the DataObject (eg: file, etc) to be opened on the Editor TopComponent. However, for certain case, I do not have the file yet eg: in Sketsa menu File - New. We do not want to ...
Posted in Java, Netbeans, Sketsa | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
If you build application on top of Netbeans Platform, the default user directory setting will be in .app-name/dev. Well, this will quickly turn become problem when you deploy your next version of application, because the next version will read that directory settings for any persistence object and try to load ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
This is a tutorial on how to create most recently used files for the Netbeans Platform based application, like you see in the Sketsa or Citra FX.
Note: this tutorial utilize the new NbPreferences available in the upcoming Netbeans 6
Posted in Citra FX, Java, Netbeans, Sketsa | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 6th, 2007
By default Netbeans Platform based application automatically insert the version information by using the platform build number (the first or last 4 digits, correct me if I am wrong). And currently there is no easy ways to set or update this version info, unless you want to dig through the ...
Posted in Java, Netbeans | 3 Comments »
Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Netbeans Platform allows the application to be localized, the only problem is that it is not quite clear on the documentation, especially how to override the localization for Netbeans default menu eg: File, Edit, Windows, etc
Note: The is based on Netbeans 5.5.1
So to localize Netbeans Platform default menu, you could ...
Posted in Java, Netbeans | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
New features in Netbeans Platform 6 is the ability to parsing command line, so let's try to parse command line to automatically open document on startup. This example below are using Sketsa SVG Editor as an example
Posted in Java, Netbeans, SVG, Sketsa | No Comments »
