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This is another series of Netbeans Platform i18n and localization trick. You can read the other series in here and here. This methods is used to localize Netbeans Platform based Application which can be updated using Update Center. It also have an entry on the Plugins List. However, please note this may be somekind of HACK. The proper localization should be following Netbeans Localization Project.
We just released Alkitab Bible Study 0.9. Alkitab Bible Study is open source and free desktop based Bible Study tool. It features rich and user friendly Bible study tools. Alkitab supports parallel view, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, and daily devotions. It also come with powerful search capability. Alkitab is an alternative front end to the JSword project. Alkitab also build on top of Netbeans Platform
What’s new:
This release improve the stability a lot, it fixes many bugs. The next release will be 1.0 final, so if you find any bugs, questions, etc please do not hesitate to drop me a note, it help me a lot to stop the bugs before 1.0 final.
Just a simple tip regarding module branding splash during development or debugging.
If you build a “standalone” module for your Netbeans RCP based application, during development you will notice that it will display the original Netbeans IDE/RCP splash screen rather than your branded application splash screen.
To enable your own branded splash during development you can add the following on the module project properties
# replace the token with your own branding token branding.token=alkitab branding.dir=none
Note: it is tested on Netbeans 6.1
KIYUT just released Citra FX Photo Effects 2.5, a photo filter effects for digital photos or images. It allows anyone, regardless of experience, to turn digital images into unique artistic looks. Creating impressive photo effects have never been this easy and fun. It is well suited for everything from simple to advanced digital photo or image filtering.
What’s new:
Citra FX Photo Effects Information
Product Page
http://www.kiyut.com/products/citra/index.html
Features Page
http://www.kiyut.com/products/citra/features.html
Screenshots Page
http://www.kiyut.com/products/citra/screenshots.html
If you build an application on top of Netbeans Platform, you probably already know that it is using Apache Ant as the build system. Thanks to this flexibility of Netbeans Platform (ant based build system), this system allow us to do various trick to automate stuff. For example
This time the trick is how to override build-zip ant target to add your own files eg: license file, properties or configuration files, etc
Basically it is just
<!-- step (1) see depend suite.build-zip --> <target name="build-zip" depends="suite.build-zip"> <property name="nbdist.dir" value="dist"/> <property name="release.dir" value="${nbdist.dir}/${app.name}"/> <!-- step (2) unzip the result --> <unzip src="${nbdist.dir}/${app.name}.zip" dest="${nbdist.dir}"/> <!-- step (3) do your copying stuff here, check the ant doc for copy, move, etc file --> <!-- step (4) zip again --> <zip destfile="${nbdist.dir}/${app.name}-updated.zip"> <zipfileset dir="${release.dir}" prefix="${app.name}"/> </zip> <echo message=" "/> <echo message="cleaning and finalizing release" /> <delete dir="${release.dir}"/> </target>
This is the second part of Netbeans Platform i18n and localization trick. The first part is available at Netbeans Platform i18n and localization.
This approach is using branding trick to override the Netbeans Platform default localization. I think this is a HACK, use with caution. The proper localization should be following Netbeans Localization Project. Please see
So for example, you want to localize Menu - File - Exit to Keluar (Indonesian localization for exit), this could not be done with layer.xml trick because that Menu Action is not localized through layer.xml, it is using NbBundle.getBundle instead. So what you need to do is using the Netbeans Platform branding feature to localize that Menu Action.
Note: This is tested on Netbeans 6.0.1
You need to know where it is localized and the name of jar, in this case it under
org.netbeans.core.actions.Bundle
with key Exit=E&xit
jar name = org-netbeans-core.jar
Finally, we just build Java Web Start for Sketsa SVG Editor and Citra FX Photo Effects. Last time, we disabled Java Web Start due to the Netbeans Bug: 96928 which is now fixed. However, there are another Java Web Start related bug which is not fixed yet:
For us the above bugs effect the external web browser module, so we just disabled this external web browser module for our application web start.
Now, you can try our application as Java Web Start (no installation required)
Note: this is still experimental
If you have any feedback, please do not hesitate to drop me a note.
So, you just finished creating Netbeans Platform based Application and ready to deploy it to the users. You might be interested to check IzPack Installer.
IzPack is an installers generator for the Java platform. It produces lightweight installers that can be run on any operating system where a Java virtual machine is available. Depending on the operating system, it can be launched by a double-click or a simple java -jar installer.jar from a shell. The most common use is to distribute applications for the Java platform, but you can also use it for other kinds of projects.
This is what we used in Sketsa SVG Editor and Citra FX Photo Effects. Just change the values in the example below to fit your needs.
Note: this is tested on Netbeans 6 and 5.5
Update: this is based on the following folder/file structure
[your-suite-project-folder]
- [branding]
- [installer]
- [icons]
- [izpack]
- izpack-install-script.xml
- Win-shortcutSpec.xml
- etc (other required izpack resources
eg: image, executable file, etc)
- readme.html
- [legal]
- [nbproject]
Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0 just released, Now by popular request we are going to develop SVG animation plugins module for the Sketsa. We are stuck at how the UI will flow, do you like the way Adobe Flash Editor, Jasc Webdraw, or you prefer new ways for doing animation editor, etc ?
So we are looking for feedback regarding how the SVG animation plugins will behave (UI Flow), do you have any preferences how things should be done.
Things to consider:
Note: UI Flow means editor UI (workflow UI), not the resulting SVG output.
Note: If you like to show screen cast of your favorite features of the existing animation editor, you could use Wink (Free), camtamsia, or screenshots, etc, so we could see it better, sometimes is hard to express things in writing right 
If you like to write the feedback in your own blog or webpages, please add the link to the comment section, so we could easily find about it.
Any feedbacks are very appreciated and help us a lot in developing this SVG animation editor.
Just a quick note, yesterday we just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG.
What’s new:
For plugins developer, in this release we also add and expose SVG Animation Engine Class
/** Returns the SVGAnimationEngine for the document or null. * @return org.apache.batik.bridge.SVGAnimationEngine */ VectorCanvas.getAnimationEngine()
