Recent Posts by Petr Pisl

Sometimes I need to increase the default font used in NetBeans. For example for a presentaion. Fortunatelly it's simple to change the default font size used in editor,  menus, dialogs, etc. You can run NetBeans with argument --fontsize xx, where xx is the required size. The --fontsize argument applies to fonts used in menus, dialogs and most components in the IDE. You can run NetBeans with --fontsize from command line: on Windows: netbeans.exe --fontsize 14on a linux machine:...

NetBeans editor follows the system setting of anti-aliasing font.  On windows you have to set up ClearType method to smooth edges of screen fonts, which is not the default value on Windows XP. I think that Windows Vista uses ClearType method as the default one. Also the default value in both cases can depend on your hardware. To change the method go to the Display Properties and in Appearance tab open the Effects dialog. When there is the default value Standard, then...

This tip explains how to set up different web browsers to view a project or a page. Other web browser configurations are helpful if you want to view a page in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari or any other browser than the default system one. It can also help you when you need to test your applications with different versions of a browser. After installation or when running the IDE with a fresh userdir, NetBeans uses the default system browser. When you invoke Run or De...

For the last few weeks we have been in a bug fixing phase of the development cycle. We are trying to fix as many issues as possible before the code freeze of NetBeans 6.5 in two weeks. After the code freeze  we will fix only show stoppers, but now we can still fix issues with priorities P2 and some P3. It depends on how much time we have. I hope that the first version of PHP support will be really useful for you. If you find an issue in the latet builds, please enter the issue...

There was recently published new tutorial Introduction to Ajax for PHP Web Applications on NetBeans site. The tutorial provides an introduction to Ajax and demonstrates some of the features in the NetBeans IDE that allow you to program faster and more efficiently when working with Ajax-related technologies. In the example application, you can create an entry field with autocomplete feature.

NetBeans IDE supports Software as a Service (SaaS) applications in PHP. There are registered Web Services in the Services tab. Using these Web Services is easy. Just drag and drop a service node into the php editor, where you want to use it. NetBeans will generate the code for you. Many of these services requires a key, so you have to obtain your key from the provider of the service. If you are interested in this feature, read the tutorialon how to plug in the Yahoo News Web...

Yesterday I added support for class property variables into the PHP build. Although the demo is targeted to show how NetBeans PHP handles class property variables, you can also see other editor features and how to find a declaration. In the screencast I create a simple application that you probably would write in a different way, but I needed to make it fit the purpose of the demo. The video is published on NetBeans.TV

The NetBeans editor contain many features that can increase your productivity. Code templates are one such feature. Code templates let you paste a snippet into the document at the caret position via an abbreviation or code completion. The list of available code templates is in the Options dialog, category Editor and tab Code Templates. If you want to see the PHP code templates, you have to select PHP in the Language combo box. As I wrote above, you can paste the snippet via the...

Toni Epple has written a nice tutorial about customizing a WordPress theme. You can read it here. It is nice to know that the result of our work is useful and helpful, even if we haven't fully finished the first version of PHP support yet.