One Minute Distraction

Monday October 30, 2006

NetBeans in Fullscreen

Recently I was working on a Swing application that requires fullscreen (FS) support. I experimented with both JDK 5 and JDK 6. Unfortunately for me JDK 5 does not have support FS for the Linux distro that I'm using; I have better luck with JDK 6.

After learning a thing or two about Java's fullscreen support I thought I would try to add FS to NetBeans as a module. After some hacking here is my effort:

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You can get the NBM here. The source is available here. Note that the NBM is compiled with JDK 6 build 103. So if you are trying this module, NetBeans have to be running in JDK 6.

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