Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Nice: What do you think the above refers to? Answer: The new double-click-drag-select and triple-click-drag-select support that will be part of NetBeans IDE 7.1. I tried it and it works great. Read about it here: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89607

Andrzej Olszak contributed some code to the Sticky Note Sidebar for detecting when the user has stopped typing for 10 seconds. Here his code is extrapolated into a poller action registered in the Java editor popupmenus: import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import javax.swing.event.DocumentEvent; import javax.swing.event.DocumentListener; import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument; import org.openide.awt.ActionID;i...

Watch this great movie (made me want to download immediately and begin creating some 3D games) by clicking the image of the jMonkeyEngine 3 SDK: Details: http://netbeans.dzone.com/announcements/jmonkeyengine-3-beta-released

Chuk-Munn Lee and others have asked for the sources of the Sticky Note TODO Integration, so here they are: http://java.net/projects/nb-api-samples/sources/api-samples/show/versions/7.1/misc/StickyNoteSideBar When you get hold of those sources, you'll have a project that looks like this: Anyone is very welcome to add code to the sources. For example, Andrzej Olszak could add some listening code, via RequestProcessor, for automatically updating the notes whenever the user...

Took the idea from Allan Lykke Christensen in the comments to my blog entry yesterday and here's the result, integration of TODOs with Sticky Notes, where the note now shows the line where the related TODO is found, together with the possibility of jumping from the note to the line, as well as a refresh action on the sidebar (available when you right-click in the sidebar) allowing the whole sidebar to be refreshed (e.g., when new TODOs have been created or existing ones have...

Here's what you get when you combine the blog entry from yesterday with the Visual Library and a really cool Sticky Note component by Gerrit Grunwald: The Sticky Note sidebar is part of each and every Java document in the IDE. Whenever you open a Java document, the Sticky Note sidebar is shown, i.e., it is part of the Java document (and not a separate palette or via a separate TopComponent), enabling you to create reminders for yourself dedicated to the current Java document,...

I created a button that's displayed at the top of all Java documents, containing the name of the current class, and when you click on it the document opens in an external text editor: Here's how: package org.sb;import java.awt.Desktop;import java.awt.FlowLayout;import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;import java.awt.event.ActionListener;import javax.swing.JButton;import javax.swing.JComponent;import javax.swing.JPanel;import javax.swing.SwingConstants;import...

Here's a Java interface open in NetBeans IDE: Today (in fact, 5 minutes ago) I discovered (while looking at http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150342), that you can click on the "I" icons in the sidebar above and then... Wow. I can click on an item in the list above and then I find myself in the selected implementation. So, I can navigate from an interface to any of its implementations by clicking on the "I" icon on the left of a Java interface? Is it just me or is...

Right after JavaOne, I met members of the team at Stanford working on a very interesting biomechanical application on the NetBeans Platform: The project is for students and educators interested in how elements of a musculoskeletal model come together to generate simulations of human movement. For all the details, including a free download: https://simtk.org/home/soccerkickmodel/ Tip: And now spend 4 minutes watching this movie to see what real computing (as opposed to the...