Monday May 25, 2009
Monday May 25, 2009
How to Programmatically Open the New File Dialog
The question of the day comes from Robin, who is from bstek.com in China. He sends the screenshot shown below and wonders how to enable the "New File" dialog to be opened when a button he created is clicked:
There was a discussion on the dev@openide.netbeans.org mailing list sometime ago (click here to jump into it), answering this question. And here's code that I have tried a few minutes ago (in a 6.7 build) that opens the New File dialog. However, note that the New File dialog can only open in the context of a project in NetBeans IDE. In other words, a project must be open and the assumption is that the new file will be created within that project.
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.Action;
import org.openide.ErrorManager;
import org.openide.cookies.InstanceCookie;
import org.openide.filesystems.FileObject;
import org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil;
import org.openide.loaders.DataObject;
public final class SomeAction implements ActionListener {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
Action a = findAction("Actions/Project/org-netbeans-modules-project-ui-NewFile.instance");
a.actionPerformed(e);
}
public Action findAction(String key) {
FileObject fo = FileUtil.getConfigFile(key);
if (fo != null && fo.isValid()) {
try {
DataObject dob = DataObject.find(fo);
InstanceCookie ic = dob.getLookup().lookup(InstanceCookie.class);
if (ic != null) {
Object instance = ic.instanceCreate();
if (instance instanceof Action) {
Action a = (Action) instance;
return a;
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
ErrorManager.getDefault().notify(ErrorManager.WARNING, e);
return null;
}
}
return null;
}
}
The code above comes straight from the discussion on the mailing list. Alternative approaces are also described there. So, here's hoping this answers the question, Robin! And good luck with your plugin, looks pretty interesting so far.
May 25 2009, 06:26:38 PM PDT Permalink
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Posted by 61.17.224.140 on May 25, 2009 at 07:57 PM PDT #
Thank you very much master.
Posted by robin on May 26, 2009 at 09:00 PM PDT #
Hi, Thanks a lot for all the great tutorials. I have a similar problem of invoking the new file dialog programmatically. However I wish to invoke it for a specific file template I have created. Its basically invoking the new file dialog programatically from a tool bar button. Any clues? :)
Posted by Dushan on June 30, 2009 at 09:52 PM PDT #
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