Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

In the final step of this three part series, we create a completely independent application, with its own launcher, that looks like this: The special features of this movie player are its ability to show multiple movies simultaneously, together with the fact that you can detach each movie window from the application, and that it is based on the Visual Library, so that you can zoom and pan within a movie. Ultimately, since it uses the Visual Library, maybe you'd add...

At the end of my recent blog entry "Watch Movies in NetBeans", there are some interesting comments, specifically from Stefan Flemming and Oliver Rettig. Both have very interesting scenarios in which JMF on the NetBeans Platform might be useful to explore. Stefan writes: "Have you thought about video streaming? Is it possible? It would be so great if i could stream my camera view of the scientific instrument directly into my Netbeans RCP control suite." And Oliver's use case...

Adam Myatt, experienced author and NetBeans user, is the writer of Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition. It is set to be released by Apress towards the end of March 2007. You can already pre-order it from Amazon (click here). At 475 pages in length, it seems like a book worth getting! Here's what the front cover looks like: The book's matching web sites, for which Adam has written several articles, are http://www.ProNetBeans.com orhttp://www.ProNetBeansIDE.com. I...

This is the first of a 3 part series of blog entries in which I intend to show you, as exactly as possible, how to create the movie player shown in yesterday's blog entry. At the end of this series, you should have something that looks a lot like the movie player shown in yesterday's blog entry. The three part series will consist of the following: Part 1: Setting Up and Testing JMF Part 2: Adding the Movie Player to NetBeans IDE Part 3: Creating a Movie Player on the NetBeans...

My long-cherished dream has come true at last... I can watch movies in NetBeans IDE. And, thanks to the powerful windowing system, I can watch multiple movies at once: Plus, it is very easy to remove all the IDE's modules... and then you're left with a separate non-IDE application that contains only the parts needed for the movie player. Here the application is running on NetBeans 6, so that the windows can be undocked: To make the above application yourself, you need only...

Way back on Wednesday August 03, 2005, in this blog, I praised Elliotte Rusty Harold's great Processing XML with Java. I've learnt a lot from it (and I make use of it at least once or twice a month), all from the online version of the book, though I've seen the hardcopy of the book lying around in various places here at Sun in Prague. Then today I saw in Alex's blog that Elliotte Rusty Harold has had some nice things to say about NetBeans and Swing. So I clicked the linkand...

Well, I tried various things, and despite the tips received in yesterday's blog entry (thanks Tom, Sven, and Anonymous, also thanks Antonio, I'll investigate your suggestion), I still can't get my NetBeans Platform application to work correctly, with the same error message as yesterday. I'm sure the reason is what Tom and Sven suggest, the DLL not being found. But I put it in various places (like in release/modules/lib within my library wrapper, which seemed, from mailing...

Well, I gotta say that working with JMF is about as fun as something that isn't much fun at all. But the results came sooner than I'd feared. Here's my first movie player: Currently it is a simple Swing application. However, no matter how much I tried, I couldn't get it to work on the NetBeans Platform. I know it must have something to do with Fobs, which "is a set of object oriented APIs to deal with media. It relies in the ffmpeg library, but provides developers with a much...

If you define XML files that conform to the http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/toolbar.dtd, you can set up toolbar configurations and dynamically show or hide your toolbars. Everything I know about this I read in the FAQ: How do I hide and show toolbars the way the debugger does?. Handily, the IDE comes with two of its own toolbar configuration files, called Coding.xml and Debugging.xml, as you'll find when you expand the Toolbars folders within "<this layer in context>". For...