Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

So take a look in the NetBeans Plugin Manager (which is under Tools | Plugins in NetBeans IDE): Wow. Thomas Enebo. Isn't that one of the creators of Ruby? And that plugin's been in the Plugin Portal a while now. Just go ahead and install it in NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 and Bob's your mother's brother: In August, I wrote Thomas Enebo an e-mail with the subject line "How are things with the NetBeans Ruby plugin?" And his response was: "It largely works with 7.0.{,1}, but there is a...

The NetBeans Platform comes with a pluggable filter component. Nicklas Löf explained in his blog sometime ago how to place that component anywhere you like. Today I wondered if the Matisse GUI Builder could be used to layout the location of the component. I came up with a simple trick. Drag and drop a JPanel from the Palette onto your TopComponent: Then use the code from Nicklas' blog, linked above, to retrieve the component via your layer entry (which is also explained...

Half an hour from now you can know everything there is to know about Project Coin, i.e., the small language changes in JDK 7, simply by watching this very comprehensive presentation by spec lead Joe Darcy:

When you use the "NetBeans Platform Application" template in NetBeans IDE and you make no changes of any kind, simply run it, you'll find that your "File" menu has this content, by default: Let's now imagine we want to add an "Open File" menu item to the "File" menu that you see above. Of course, you could create that menu item and the related GUI and functionality yourself. Or, you could reuse the functionality from NetBeans IDE, which comes from a module named "User...

Microchip has made a significant strategic shift by adopting an open source framework on which to base the latest version of its integrated development environment, MPLAB. It provides engineers with a single IDE for its entire range of 8, 16 and 32bit MCUs, with cross-platform support for Linux, Mac OS and Windows operating systems. Microchip has made a significant strategic shift by adopting an open source framework on which to base the latest version of its integrated...

Gerrit Grunwald has enhanced his FXG Converter enabling it to support FXG transformations. The background of this is that if you take a box in Adobe Illustrator and rotate it by 10 degrees, it will get a transformation tag in the exported FXG file: <Group d:userLabel="Rectangle">     <transform>         <Transform>             <matrix>                 <Matrix a="0.7071067811865476"                 b="0.7071067811865475"                 c="-0.7071067811865475"              ...

The dream scenario of convert-compile-create has been realized, i.e., you're now able to convert an FXG file to Java, compile it, and then -- without any tweaking of any kind -- immediately use the generated component in the creation of your Java user interface. E.g., just drag the generated Java component directly into a Swing container in Matisse.And, you're now also able to generate a NetBeans TopComponent straight from your FXG file. The generated TopComponent will...

The NetBeans FXG Converter is now available, for the simple reason that comments and critiques are needed. It would be great, especially of course if you're a designer of some kind, or use Illustrator or other Adobe tools that output FXG, if you'd simply try out the plugin and leave comments on the plugin's page, of any kind. Note: Please use NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 with this plugin and not any other version of NetBeans IDE. That way it will be clear that the issues found relate to...