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Wednesday Jul 30, 2008

Cluster numbers increased

Cluster numbers were increased :

nb6.1 -> nb6.5
platform8 -> platform9
ide9 -> ide10

More details at issue 140178

Posted at 04:48PM Jul 30, 2008 by lukas in News | Comments[0] | Permalink

Change of New Project wizard categories

When you built up and started new build of NetBeans IDE you could be surprised. The New Project wizard categories has been changed. If you watched issue 141913 then you probably wouldn't be shocked ;) All the changes were recommended by our Human Interface Engineeers from xDesign team. Look at the UI specification.
New categories

The structure is more flat now. And the categories are more obvious.

Posted at 04:45PM Jul 30, 2008 by lukas in News | Comments[0] | Permalink

Thursday Jul 24, 2008

Icon tell me more about you

I don't remember what all the icons in NetBeans IDE mean. Sometimes you can guess, sometimes you are lost. But now there is also text description of the meaning of the icon on a node. Of course, the node has to provide the information. But as you can see from the screenshots there is plenty of messages already.

Interested in more details? Read the specification. Or you want to know how to use it?

And I wonder - how -the hack- we are going to test it?

Posted at 10:00AM Jul 24, 2008 by lukas in News | Comments[3] | Permalink

Wednesday Jul 23, 2008

Why is 'Build' action grey on new project?

Please, see update about this topis at "Build is not grey anymore"

Create new project in NetBeans IDE. Right click the project. The Build and Clean action is always grey out.

When you open an old project then it is there. So what is the magic here? Go to project properties, in category Compiling you'll find Compile On Save check box. When checked then the saved file is always compiled when you save it.

Are you interested in more details? Try it in latest builds or read the specification.

Posted at 04:04PM Jul 23, 2008 by lukas in News | Comments[14] | Permalink

Tuesday Jul 15, 2008

IssuezillaLinkPlugin and NBImportPlugin at wiki.netbeans.org

Petr created two new plugins for wiki.netbeans.org. It took us a while to get them to the running wiki however they are finally working.

IssuezillaLinkPlugin
Creates link to bug report in issuezilla. It simplifies the link creation.
Pattern: [{IZ num=123123}] Result will be text "Issue 123123" that links to the issue 123123 in NetBeans issuezilla.
More info at plugin page
NBImportPlugin
It allows you to import a text/source code from netbean.org domain. There exist plenty of other import plugins for the JSPWiki however we wanted to restrict the import to the netbeans.org sites.
Pattern: [{NBImportPlugin url='http://foo.netbeans.org/foo.bar'}] Result will be imported page foo.bar. Please note that the imported text is in pre tags.
More info at plugin page