Wednesday May 18, 2005
Wednesday May 18, 2005
Docking a NetBeans Module in the IDE (Part 2)
I've been working on docking the Anagrams module that I created in NetBeans Modules for Dummies (Part 6). When docking a module, the following files are necessary:
- A Java class that extends TopComponent
- A Java class that extends CallableSystemAction
- A layer file (.xml extension)
- A manifest file (.mf extension)
- A mode settings file (.settings extension)
- A windows system top component reference file (.wstcref extension)
On top of that, there's also got to be some way to actually build the module. For that, I'm using the Ant scripts referred to in previous blog entries. So this is what everything looks like when fitted together in the IDE:
Of course, Rich Unger's FeedReader, A NetBeans Platform Sample and Tutorial is the document which goes into this whole area in quite a lot of detail. In fact, that document is the only tutorial currently available (as far as I'm aware anyway) on this topic. And so that's the document that I've been working through, together with this document that I referred to yesterday.
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