Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

With Jason Lee's NetBake plugin (https://bitbucket.org/jdlee/netbake), when you've installed JRuby and then the Asciidoctor gem, you're good to go to use Asciidoctor with NetBeans IDE. New Asciidoc files can be created, which have a Source view... ...and a Visual view. The current content of the text editor is parsed by the Asciidoctor gem and the resulting HTML is displayed in a JEditorPane: Awestruct support is also part of the NetBake plugin, with a new project type and...

All/most/many gestures you make in NetBeans IDE are recorded in an XML file in your user directory, "var/log/uigestures", which is what makes the Key Promoter I outlined yesterday possible. The idea behind it is for analysis to be made possible, when you periodically pass the gestures data back to the NetBeans team. See http://statistics.netbeans.org for details. Since the gestures in the 'uigestures' file are identifiable by distinct loggers and other parameters, there's no...

Whenever a menu item or toolbar button is clicked, it would be handy if NetBeans were to tell you 'hey, did you know, you can actually do this via the following keyboard shortcut', if a keyboard shortcut exists for the invoked action. After all, ultimately, a lot of developers would like to do everything with the keyboard and a key promoter feature of this kind is a helpful tool in learning the keyboard shortcuts related to the menu items and toolbar buttons you're clicking...

So you're working on your NetBeans Platform application and you notice that when you right-click on tabs in the predefined windows, e.g., the Projects window, you see a long list of popup menus. For whatever the reason is, you decide you don't want those popup menus. You right-click the application and go to the Branding dialog. There you uncheck the checkboxes that are unchecked below: As you can see above, you've removed three features, all of them related to closing the...

Sin IDE is... a super slick and snappy mashup of Sublime Text + IntelliJ IDEA + NetBeans IDE. Click to get a fuller picture: Featuring a firy brew of free and out of the box tools for seamless work with Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Maven, Gradle, Java, JUnit, TestNG, FindBugs, Java EE, JavaFX, Java Profiler, Tomcat, TomEE, GlassFish, WildFly, WebLogic, MySQL, Oracle DB, Java Derby, embedded JavaFX WebKit browser, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, RequireJS, NodeJS, Bower, Karma, Grunt,...

For those who somehow missed seeing this on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and probably other social media sites... here it is, in very few bits and pieces a basic overview of what the NetBeans Platform entails: It features Some Guy Who Left (without documenting anything): And then it shows how to overcome the mess created by that guy. (That guy looks a tiny bit like JB Brock, except that he's awesome, as proven in this recent interview with him about the recently released "Java EE...

So you're using MultiViewElements in your NetBeans Platform application. When the user right-clicks one of the tabs they're able to split the editor you've created for them. Here you see the split functionality in the Source tab: Here you see the split functionality in the Design tab, i.e., in both cases the user right-clicks in the tab and then sees they can split the editor: However, what if you do NOT want that functionality? In the Branding dialog of the application, look...

Another monthly update of "NetBeans Platform for Beginners" is available. Everyone who has already bought the book has received, or will be receiving, an e-mail with instructions on how to get the latest update for free. All others are warmly invited to join in reading, and commenting on, the (in my humble opinion) best book written about the NetBeans APIs: https://leanpub.com/nbp4beginners To give you a taste of the book, over 50 of its pages are available for free: http://samples...

Jaroslav Tulach has now integrated several references to NetBeans Platform for Beginners into the NetBeans javadoc: He's also written some very nice things about it here in his API Design blog, a version of which is part of Update 5 of NetBeans Platform for Beginners.