Painting LabelWidgets on top of the ConnectionWidget - Netbeans Visual Library

I was fiddling with the Netbeans Visual Library again, trying to show a complex graph on screen and I run into a problem: There were so many connection in the graph that some widgets were hard to read because the ConnectionWidget arrows were printed over them. So I tried to I try to rearrange the order of my LayerWidgets to paint the LabelWidgets on top of ConnectionWidgets. A call to mainLayer.bringToFront() should be enough, but this is what I got when I tried that: ...

May 7, 2009

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 ...

April 28, 2009