The newly released Google Web element: custom search is awesome. To add it to my wordpress theme (which doesn’t have a top sidebar for widgets) I had to edit (Appearance ⇒ Editor) the header.php file and add the snippet I got from Google there, at just at the end of the header.php. So the search web element is show right after the banner and before the posts. ...
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: ...
If you’re getting a NullPointerException stacktrace like the one below while using the Netbeans Visual Library to create your own GraphScene, check that your adding your widgets propertly to scene. A good idea is to use LayerWidgets, declaring them in the constructor of your GraphScene: mainLayer = new LayerWidget(this); addChild(mainLayer); connectionLayer = new LayerWidget(this); addChild(connectionLayer); and then add the widgets to those layers in attachNodeWidget and attachEdgeWidget: @Override protected Widget attachNodeWidget(String node) { LabelWidget w = new LabelWidget(this, node); w.setBorder(BORDER4); w.getActions().addAction(createSelectAction()); w.getActions().addAction(createObjectHoverAction()); w.getActions().addAction(ActionFactory.createMoveAction()); this.mainLayer.addChild(w); return w; } @Override protected Widget attachEdgeWidget(String edge) { ConnectionWidget w = new ConnectionWidget(this); w.setTargetAnchorShape(AnchorShape.TRIANGLE_FILLED); this.connectionLayer.addChild(w); return w; } The stacktrace: ...
I think it was about time to change theme. I opted for Sandbox, I like the clean look. I was surprised on how well the change theme procedure was, just switch theme and the sidebar (with all the widgets) it’s still there.