Recent Posts by Petr Pisl

Yesterday I have added small new feature to the jQuery support. Now you can navigate to the css id or classes definition through the hyperlink. So when you place the mouse cursor over an id or a css class and press CTRL / Command key, the id or class changed to the link. After click there is opened the css file with appropriate style definition. 

As I wrote in my last few posts, we are working on the new JavaScript editor. A few days ago we have merged the editor from a branch to the trunk, so now the editor is a part of daily builds that can be downloaded here and it should be much easier to play with it. We are working hard on it and probably not everything is working as you want or as you expected. I would like to ask you to help us to make the JavaScript editor better and better. Just play with it or try to write...

NetBeans 7.2 Beta was today published. You can download it here. You could read about the PHP features added to the NetBeans 7.2 release here on the blog, but the main features added or improved are: Support for PHP 5.4 PHP editing: Fix Uses action, annotations support, editing of Neon and Apache Config files and more Support for Symfony2, Doctrine2 and ApiGen frameworks FTP remote synchronization Support for running PHP projects on Hudson As obvious you can help us to test the...

In one my post I mentioned that I work on the new JavaScript editor. Today I would like to show a few pictures from new jQuery support.  The code completion for jQuery methods with documentation: The code completion for jQuery methods works also in a chain of methods:  If you invoke the code completion in argument place of a jQuery method, then the code completion offers html tags:  attributes of a tag: css elements (rules, classes) that are used in the project and selectors with...

Today I would like to mentioned code folding in the new JavaScript editor support, which is available in the continual builds from our server. It's a basic feature, but was mentioned in a comment under the mentioned post. So you can fold comments and every code block between { and }. The current support allows only methods to be folded. The difference is shown below. In the picture on the left side is the current folding and on the right side the new one.   The code folding...

I did not write a blog post here for a few weeks. I think the last my post was  about releasing NetBeans 7.1 in the beginning of January. The reason is not that I would change the job:), but that I have concentrated on new JavaScript support/editor. The new JavaScript editor is written basically from scratch. The answer for the question "Why from beginning again, why do you just improve the old one?" is not easy and the decision has more aspects. One of the main reasons is...

Now you can download the final build of NetBeans 7.1 . There are many improvements and fixes in web development area, including supporting PHP. About the new features and improvement you can read here. Thanks for your support. 

Just a few minutes ago the release candidate of NetBeans 7.1 was published. You can download the build from NetBeans site.  As obvious you can help us to test the build. Just try it and if you find an issue / error, please report it.  Thanks for your help.

One week ago I have added two new properties for formating PHP code into NetBeans 7.1. In Alignment category there are new properties for Group Multiline Alignment - Assignment and Array Initializer.  The Assignment property influence position of the char '=' in a group of lines with assignments.  Let see the pictures below.  On the left site -  Assignment property is off and on the right site the property is on. As you can see, when the property is set on, then the assignment...