Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

New and improved version of what I posted in my blog yesterday, thanks to discussions with Toni Epple, with whom I find myself in the Holiday Inn in Geneva, Switzerland, the evening before the next NetBeans Platform Certified Training, this time in Switzerland, public class Installer extends ModuleInstall { @Override public void restored() { WindowManager.getDefault().invokeWhenUIReady(new DemoRunnable()); } private class DemoRunnable implements Runnable { ...

public class Installer extends ModuleInstall { private Result<DataObject> res; @Override public void restored() { WindowManager.getDefault().invokeWhenUIReady(new DemoRunnable()); } private class DemoRunnable implements Runnable { @Override public void run() { final TopComponent.Registry registry = TopComponent.getRegistry(); registry.addPropertyChangeListener(new PropertyChangeListener() { @Override ...

Life without a blinking cursor is much better, more peaceful, surprisingly calming. I never considered such a thing before reading the comments here. I found an old thread on the dev alias, by Emilian Bold (here), and now my cursor doesn't blink at all anymore. Here's the whole module, with all the code (i.e., set blink rate per editor type) in its simplest implementation (i.e., without Options window extension): Hoping to see this functionality (within the Options window)...

In the last few days, I found out about a number of different applications making use of the NetBeans Platform that I'd never heard of before. Here's one of them: Caché Monitor. It is a standalone SQL development tool for working with Intersystems Caché. To see some of the details, click the pics below to enlarge them: What does this application gain from the NetBeans Platform? According to its home page: A window system that greatly simplifies the manipulation of multiple...

Made a small plugin that lets me generate PDF from PS, via the "ps2pdf" utility on Ubuntu (and probably other Linuxes and other os'es): Aside from the NetBeans API classes relating to files, I used the following for the above integration: org.netbeans.api.progress.ProgressHandle org.netbeans.api.progress.ProgressHandleFactory org.openide.execution.NbProcessDescriptor org.openide.util.RequestProcessor org.openide.windows.IOProvider org.openide.windows.InputOutput org.openide.windows.O...

The many Visual Library samples in "contrib" include one called "serialization". I used that sample today to serialize one of my own scenes. Before showing the code, some screenshots. First, I drag and drop one or two items from the palette onto my scene: Next, after resizing them (code for which you can find via the NetBeans Platform Tutorials page, bearing in mind this issue), I save them, using the Save menu item: Then, simply as a result of using the above menu item, this...

I've started re-adding the palette with Wicket components to the Wicket plugin for NetBeans IDE. The old approach, done by Petr Pisl using MDR, no longer worked with the Retouche APIs and so we simply disabled that palette with the introduction of the 6.0 Java editor. Now, however, I've used the Retouche APIs so that when an item is dropped into the HTML editor, some corresponding code is dropped into the constructor on the Java side.Here you can see the palette, i.e., bottom...

I reused some of Tim Boudreau's cool utility methods in the Wicket plugin and wired them up to actions in the Java editor and HTML editor. Here's a new action in the Java editor, if we're dealing with a Wicket project and there's a matching markup artifact: However, if these conditions aren't true, the action isn't enabled: Same thing in the HTML editor: These actions (which resolve issue 12 in nbwicketsupport Issuezilla) are in the "nb_67" branch of the nbwicketsupport project...

Several updates to the Wicket plugin for NetBeans IDE 6.7 (or above): http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=3586 When you click the Download button, you should get a ZIP with a name ending in "Wicket4NB67-3.zip". That's the right one, the previous one ended "Wicket4NB67-2.zip". The changes are as follows: Libraries from the final release of 1.4 Wicket are bundled and the 1.4 RC-5 libraries are removed. Enhancements from Hantsy Bai: The...