I have created one analogue clock with Java. But i want to make it dock-able in NetBeans IDE (like shown in the screen shot).
like the left side navigator, files, bottom tasks are hidden, once i press it it shows in left or bottom
Any help on this, how can i tell my NetBeans plugin to act like dock-able? After making it working i would like to publish it to the community plugin.
This is not too complicated using the NetBeans Rich Client Platform. Follow this tutorial - http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-paintapp.html#impMod
Basically, you'll create a ClockTopComponent using the wizard. TopComponents automatically get nice windowing features for free, like docking, hiding, tiling, etc.
FAQs about TopComponent
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I've followed the tutorial link below, so to create an android project within Netbeans but I can't find the design view even when I click on the XML files. Am I missing something?
https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/dummy_guide_to_netbeans_android
Any tutorials explaining this would be great :-)
The reason I would rather use Netbeans over Eclipse, is that netbeans allows the use of a pallet to drag "buttons" or "listbox-es" over to the design view. And on click open up the buttons functions i.e. "on click" or "on item state change"
Netbeans does not have an android layout preview function like in Eclipse. You will have to install a plug-in located here:
http://www.nbandroid.org
Any version published after October 2012 will enable you to have the feature you are looking for.
I have a Neatbeans application, that works well and runs well so I want to move it into Android. So I am taking code snippets and moving it into Eclipse, and into a default made droid class. (which compiles, loads, and displays on the virtual device)
The problem, is that a few things that used to "import" into Netbeans, won't in Eclipse, or I am just doing it wrong, not sure.
Usually in Neatbeans I hit "import such and such class" and then it all compiles fine and no red errors appear in the code. In Eclipse, it is not giving any import option to some features, examples are..
DefaultModelList
HTMLUnitDriver/WebDriver (Selenium's program)
JOptionPane
And I am guessing some more will eventually pop up in the future.
Does Eclipse not support those options or something? Or is it Android that does not support those options?
Can someone tell me how to work around those issues, with their respective problems please?
The program itself is a mobile chat application, that will basically be a mobile version, of a chat that already exists on the web. Pulls chat feed data, lets you post chats back; basically the same thing as the chat on the website, but accessible from your smartphone.
Your problem is not with NetBeans vs. Eclipse. It sounds like your app uses the Java UI Framework Swing, from which you have JOptionPane. Swing is not available under Android, and anything that uses Swing will have to be extensively recoded to use the native Android UI instead.
Your app may use other libraries that aren't available in Android, as well.
Eclipse does support those options (press ctrl-shift-o). The problem is most likely the transition to Android -- lots of items change names. The Android native item to use is not JSpinner but Spinner, etc.
Also: In Android most GUI work is done with layout .xml files, a bit different than plain Java programming.
TLDR: you're conflating multiple issues. Eclipse can even import a Netbeans Project directly.
Is Eclipse a strong requirement for you? If you love NetBeans and everything is working, why not to continue with it? I believe you can develop for Android in NetBeans too...
http://binarywasteland.com/2011/07/install-netbeans-android-sdk/
I want to create an eclipse RCP application for a custom language. A programs which is written using the cutom language should be run and show it's output when the user click on the Run button.
Is it possible to integrate eclipse Run menu in eclipse RCP application with it's default features as we create NEW menu item by using ActionFactory? If it is possible how to do that?
Thanks in advance.
If you "just" want the Run menu along with the default entries, just include a dependency to org.eclipse.debug.ui.
You will then need to add launch configuration types for your specific language using the various extension point from the plugins org.eclipse.debug.core and org.eclipse.debug.ui.
As always, when it comes to the more advanced functionality of Eclipse, the easiest way to get access to the functionality is via resources and examples. Although it is a bit dated, the article "We Have Lift-off" (http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Launch-Framework/launch.html) is the best starting point for this. Have a look at the various references to org.eclipse.debug.core.launchConfigurationTypes to find the best example to use asa starting point - in particular the ANT Build stuff as this is pretty simple...
In general you can find the plug-in that contributes a specific entry using the PDE Menu Spy (Alt-Shift-F2 on MacOS)...
I'm building a Java application using NetBeans 7.0. The app is intended for use on Windows, so I guess the tool I'm really making most use of is Java Swing (for the cool, nifty screen elements).
My question relates to NetBeans' process of creating the various project types. The application I'm building is based on the "Java Desktop Application" template (?). My problem is that there seems to be a nice load of bloat built into that, and I can't figure out how to remove most of it without blowing up the app.
As a test, I created a "Java Application"project, but this has the opposite problem -- there's absolutely nothing built into the code, and I can figure out how to add anything. Specifically, a Java Desktop Application project created in NetBeans give me the ability to directly edit the screen layout like in Visual Studio. However, a Java Application does not appear to have this capability, I have no idea how (or even if) this can be addressed.
If I could start with a no-frills Java application, and add some capability to edit its layout and control the function of the screen elements (i.e. make it a windows application, I think), that would be just about perfect.
Does anybody have a suggestion for a minimal, but functional NetBeans application start point??
Thanks,
R.
If you start with a plain Java Application then as you realize you start with a bare bones type application. To add a GUI you can add New>JFRame Form. It adds a class that extends JFrame and Netbeans will recognize that it should open it in the visual editor for you.
I'm thinking about writing a simple UI designer in Java. I'm just playing with ideas at the moment to see if it is feasible.
It would be good to have something like this as all of our UIs are generated from XML. Just wondering if anyone has tried anything like this before. I know there will be a lot of effort in doing something like this.
Does anyone know of any 3rd party products that already do something like this?
If not then at a simple level, it will have drag and drop support for any component that can be positioned on a panel. Then extra bits will be added. Are there any good samples on the net for this?
Cheers
Dated back to 2005, this has an overview of Java UI Builders:
http://www.fullspan.com/articles/java-gui-builders.html
Here is a page on how to use the Eclipse Visual Editor:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecvisual/
Here is a good page on the different approaches to build UIs in Java:
http://leepoint.net/notes-java/GUI/misc/80gui-generator.html
Which GUI technology are you using? Swing? NetBeans has a very good drag-and-drop Swing GUI editor. For Eclipse there are several plugins.
If you want to see other projects in which a Swing GUI is generated from XML config files, there are different libraries that do this.
Eclipse 4.0 Developer Preview was just released with an xml based toolkit called XWT. It can be styled with CSS and has a GUI builder. This is a developer preview and there will be some changes over the next year as it progresses to release 4.1, but it is useable right now and the community support is really good.