Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

In part 1, you saw Jesse Glick's solution for a JDesktopPane on the NetBeans Platform. I've been playing with the latest sources he's provided, which now work on 7.1: https://bitbucket.org/jglick/dynamicmenudemo So, now, when "Win1" is selected below, dedicated menu items and toolbar buttons appear in the main window: ...while, if Win2 is selected, other menu items and toolbar buttons are shown/hidden: If interested in this functionality, download the sources from the link above.

Trying to build up a complete list of all the enhancements in the NetBeans window system in 7.1. Roles. There's support for roles/perspectives/profiles in NetBeans Platform 7.1, for the first time, as I wrote earlier in this blog. That's good news, now window layouts can be stored/retrieved per user. What's less good news is that this is limited to the window system, i.e., would have been nice to have had the entire file system be available on a per-user basis, e.g., some...

I wrote about the XML Schema Editor a while ago (here) and how you can install it in NetBeans IDE 7.x (i.e., any 7, e.g., 7, 7.0.1, 7.1). And then there were questions about simplifying the process, i.e., putting all those NBM files into the NetBeans Plugin Portal. So, a few days ago I did that. (But then forgot I had done so since it was at the height of my jetlag in San Francisco where I was doing things at 2 AM and then forgetting I'd done them.) http://plugins.netbeans.org/...

Let's try to reproduce this graph from ANTLRWorks via the NetBeans Visual Library: So, this will be the result of the code that follows: Here you go. As you can see, everything is hardcoded below, you would need to generate the various values yourself: public final class SynDiagTopComponent extends TopComponent { public SynDiagTopComponent() { initComponents(); setName("SynDiag Window"); setLayout(new BorderLayout()); Scene scene = new Scene(); ...

Here's a different kind of chart you can make with the NetBeans Visual Library, using some dummy data (i.e., as far as I know there's not much actual correlation between "zen" and "dog"): Here's how: public final class AlphabeticalHierarchicalTopComponent extends TopComponent { private static final String[] unsortedLabels = new String[]{ "Jon", "Cat", "Pet", "Sim", "Zen", "Fat", "Dog", "Hat", "Tim", ...

Here's an alphabetical flow chart created via the NetBeans Visual Library: Here's how: public final class AlphabeticalFlowTopComponent extends TopComponent { private static final String[] unsortedLabels = new String[] { "For", "Zoo", "Fat", "Jen", "Wet", "Pot", "Bat", "Fit", "Cow", "Dog", "Jon", "Cat", "Pet", "Hat", "And" }; public AlphabeticalFlowTopComponent() { ...

The UNHCR Refugee Assistance Management System (RAMS) is an application for managing refugee assistance between the UNHCR and its partners in urban areas. Features such as a dashboard of the available budget and management of assistance based on refugee roles are provided. The first deployment of the application will be in the UNHCR regional office in Kinshasa, together with a deployment at the site of a UNHCR partner planning to implement the related refugee assistance. Some...

When the mouse is moved over this widget, resize borders appear, and the widget can be resized: When the mouse moves away from the widget, the resize borders disappear: setLayout(new BorderLayout());Scene scene = new Scene();LayerWidget baseLayer = new LayerWidget(scene);Widget widget = new Widget(scene);widget.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(1));widget.setPreferredLocation(new Point(10, 20));widget.setPreferredBounds(new Rectangle(30, 30));widget.getActions().addActio...

Small ConnectionWidget sample, within the constructor of a TopComponent: setLayout(new BorderLayout());Scene scene = new Scene();LayerWidget baseLayer = new LayerWidget(scene);LayerWidget connectionLayer = new LayerWidget(scene);LabelWidget helloLabel1 = new LabelWidget(scene, "hello1");helloLabel1.setPreferredLocation(new Point(10, 50));baseLayer.addChild(helloLabel1);LabelWidget helloLabel2 = new LabelWidget(scene, "hello2");helloLabel2.setPreferredLocation(new Point(100,...