NetBeans 7.3 Released!
NetBeans 7.3 was officially released yesterday! Read more about what is new in this release on the wiki. It is available for download from netbeans.org.
Adding a Custom Component to the Menu Bar
The open space on the menu bar of a NetBeans Platform application is often wasted. In the NetBeans IDE, the quick search bar is positioned in that handy location. And your application can have that too of course. However, the question was raised on the forums recently how one would go about adding your own … Read more
Adding a Banner to a Platform Application
Today I was working again on the undocked TopComponent that inspired the post Hiding Tabs for Undocked TopComponents, this time adding a custom statusbar to it. And in the process I found a way of adding a banner to a NetBeans Platform application. There might be unexpected side effects with layout, but so far it … Read more
Exclude Components from Tab Order
Today I set out to accomplish something that appeared to be quite simple. However, it took me quite a few hours and lots of reading to find a solution. I do hope that this will be useful to other developers! I have been working a JPanel form with a lot of different components on it, … Read more
Hiding Tabs for Undocked TopComponents
In our NetBeans Platform application, we have a TopComponent that needs to always be opened in an undocked and maximised state. When I manually undocked the window the first time though, I immediately noticed that the single tab that appears in the window just looks really silly. So I set out to get the window … Read more