A software development blog by Hermien Pellissier
The status bar that appears at the bottom of a NetBeans Platform application can be extended with your own components. When I recently wanted to do this, I searched the Internet for good resources on this topic. And so I found this blog entry by Emilian Bold. It is very useful indeed, but it dates … Read more
In the NetBeans 7.2 IDE development builds another cool change is the ability to switch between more than just source files with Ctrl+Tab. For example, now you can switch between source and design views for Swing forms, and to non-source windows. Go ahead, try it out! 🙂 I have not forgotten about my series of … Read more
With each new version of the NetBeans Platform, there are useful new features that developers can use in their platform applications. And 7.2 is no exception to this rule. 🙂 There are a number of new features already available in the development builds for 7.2, in the Window System amongst others. The one feature that … Read more
One of the fun things about using the latest development builds of the NetBeans IDE is discovering the small new features that make life easier. And of course letting everybody else know about them. 🙂 So today I was playing around with the latest development build for 7.2 (build 201203180400) and I found something small … Read more
There is one bug in the NetBeans IDE that has been my nemesis ever since upgrading to Windows Vista 64-bit back in the day: #177820. In short, this bug means that no output is shown when an application is executed with a 64-bit JVM. There is luckily a work-around – setting up the IDE to … Read more