NetBeans

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

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

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

A while ago I decided that there is one particular module in a Maven-based NetBeans Platform application that I want to document properly with Javadocs, since it contains an API that other developers will (hopefully) use in future. And so I set out to find where the overview.html and package.html files should go. It turns … Read more

Sometimes it is useful to be able to visually separate groups of buttons on the main application toolbar. However, the NetBeans Platform doesn’t add separators to the toolbar by default as it is able to for the menubar. When I recently saw the question being posed again, I decided that it is time to find … Read more