Geertjan's Blog
- August 20, 2013
Java Scrapbook for NetBeans IDE
In a couple of NetBeans discussions and issues, users are asking for a Java scrapbook feature:
http://forums.netbeans.org/ptopic51181.html
https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191488
I took Jesse Glick's Scrapbook feature, mentioned at the end of the issue above, included Java code templates, coloring, and other features, and have made it available as a plugin in the Plugin Portal:
http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/50195/?show=true
After you install it in NetBeans IDE 7.3.1 or above, create a new Java project (Java SE, or EE, or whatever, so long as the project has a Java classpath). The feature lets you keep track of sample code snippets, which are stored in a scrapbook file in the 'private' folder of your NetBeans project and when you run them, after right-clicking in the editor, they are executed against the project's classpath.
So, you first need to create a Java project, since the classpath from the project is used when you run the snippet:
Then the editor opens and you can use quite a few of the Java editing features, but not code completion, to write some snippets:
By default, i.e., if you select nothing in the editor, when you right-click and choose "Run Snippet" everything in the editor is run. However, if you have something selected, e.g., the whole of line 7 above, then only that line will be run. In other words, you can run blocks of code.
Similar plugins, though they don't let you run code:
http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/5811/tabbed-scratchpad
http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/5349/scratch-pad
Interested to know how useful this feature is considered to be! Ultimately, maybe something to include in NetBeans IDE?
Love this feature and have been missing it since the days of the great VisualAge for Java.
Hi,
nice plugin. But how to fix this in the Output-Window of the Scrapbook:
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.modules.PatchedPublicProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.ServiceProviderProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.NamedServiceProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.NbBundleProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
Thanks
I have been waiting for this for quite some time now :)
I would love it to have it available in the standard IDE
Thanks
How about including this for php and html ?
Hi, Looks pretty cool plugin but I'm getting following warning and unable to use it.
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.modules.PatchedPublicProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.ServiceProviderProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.NamedServiceProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.NbBundleProcessor' less than -source '1.7'
Ah yes, the supported source version idiocy. Maybe you can get my https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7184902 reopened. :-)
Yes, would be cool if you could update for Netbeans 8 (Java 1.8). Maybe just rename "_.java" to "scrapbook.java" and that would work?
Great! It works on Netbeans 8.0.2 without errors for me.
Thanks for this plugin!
A feature request: context menu for gradle projects. For now I'm using a dummy netbeans default project to be able to open the scrapbook.
This plugin does not work in 8.1 - Would appreciate if this is fixed.