Archive for the ‘Netbeans’ Category

Netbeans Platform parsing layer.xml

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 ...

Nimbus, Java Expression Blend ?

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 ... ... Nimbus was drawn graphicaly in a new tool ...

Netbeans Platform Options Dialog

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 ...

Netbeans Platform and Memory File System

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 ...

Netbeans Platform and Default User Directory Settings

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 ...

Netbeans Platform and Most Recently Used files (MRU)

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

Netbeans Platform Branding and version info

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 ...

Netbeans Platform i18n and localization

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 ...

Netbeans Platform parsing command line arguments

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