Opening Favorites window at startup in a Netbeans Platform Application
After learning about the Favorites window in the NetBeans Platform Quick Start. I wanted to use it in an application of my own. This easy task became more difficult that I though because I was getting random results, sometimes after a clean build I got the Favorites window open and sometimes not. But let’s start from the beginning, I put my hands at work, it was just a matter of adding the Favorites module to the Netbeans Platform Application (app’s properties ⇒ Libraries ⇒ Platform Modules ⇒ platform9 ⇒ Favorites) and edit one of my modules layer.xml to override Windows2/Modes/explorer/favorites.wstcref. Just go to Important Files ⇒ XML Layer ⇒ this layer in context ⇒ Windows2 ⇒ Modes ⇒ explore ⇒ favorites.wstcref and replace ...