Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Watch the YouTube movie below and the tabs in NetBeans IDE will end up looking totally different: Here's all the info you'll need to achieve the above effect: Related blog entries: Plug A Custom BasicTabbedPaneUI into the NetBeans Platform Plug A JideTabbedPane into the NetBeans Platform

An excellent thing I learned today is that you, as a developer of a NetBeans module or NetBeans Platform application, can control the pin button. Up until today, whenever I had a TopComponent defined to appear in "rightSlidingSide" mode and then I clicked the "pin" button, as shown here... ...the TopComponent would then find itself pinned in the "explorer" mode. Would make more sense if it would be pinned in the "properties" mode, which is the docked mode closest to...

The following are two really basic shortcuts for working with NetBeans editor windows that will be added to the Keyboard Shortcuts card (always accessible under the Help menu) for NetBeans IDE 7.2:Ctrl-Alt-PgUp/PgDown: Shortcuts for switching between editor types (e.g. Source, Design, History buttons). Switching between the editor types is a frequent operation sometimes, e.g., when using GUI builder, and while it can be done easily via mouse, or from View |Editors menu, it is...

I received a JavaOne speaker invitation for the following sessions and BOFs. Only one involves me on my own: Session ID: CON2987 Session Title: Unlocking the Java EE 6 Platform The rest are combo packages, i.e., you get multiple speakers for the price of one.  Sessions and BOFs together with others:  Session ID: BOF4227 (together with Zoran Sevarac) Session Title: Building Smart Java Applications with Neural Networks, Using the Neuroph Framework Session ID: BOF5806 (together with...

Here's a cool YouTube promotional movie on AgroSense created by Ordina in the Netherlands. AgroSense is an open source Java system for the precision agriculture industry, which won the IT Environment Award in the Netherlands last week: If your understanding of Dutch limits your appreciation of the movie above, here's a rough translation, together with the names of the speakers in the movie: Precision agriculture, an innovative form of agriculture in which local variations in...

Thanks to this code, I can press Ctrl-Alt-V in NetBeans IDE and then view whatever is in the clipboard: import java.awt.Toolkit;import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;import java.awt.event.ActionListener;import java.io.IOException;import javax.swing.JOptionPane;import org.openide.awt.ActionRegistration;import org.openide.awt.ActionReference;import...

This is what I was aiming for in the previous blog entry: What you can see above (especially if you click to enlarge it) is that I have HTML Tidy integrated into the NetBeans analyzer functionality, which is pluggable from 7.2 onwards. Well, if you set an implementation dependency on "Static Analysis Core", since it's not an official API yet. Also, the scopes of the analyzer functionality are not pluggable. That means you can 'only' set the analyzer's scope to one or more...

First step in integrating HTML Tidy (via its JTidy implementation) into NetBeans IDE: The reason why I started doing this is because I want to integrate this into the pluggable analyzer functionality of NetBeans IDE that I recently blogged about, i.e., where the FindBugs functionality is found. So a logical first step is to get it working in an Action class, after which I can port it into the analyzer infrastructure: import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;import...

Normally, when you create a wizard, as described here, and you have your own iterator, you'll have a class signature like this: public final class MyWizardWizardIterator implements WizardDescriptor.InstantiatingIterator<WizardDescriptor> { Let's now imagine that you've got some kind of long running process your wizard needs to perform. Maybe the wizard needs to connect to something, which could take some time. Start by adding a new dependency on the Progress API,...