Associating Palettes with View TopComponents

Posted by Geertjan on Oracle Blogs See other posts from Oracle Blogs or by Geertjan
Published on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:28:47 +0000 Indexed on 2012/03/18 18:12 UTC
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A side effect of changes in NetBeans Platform 7.1 in the NetBeans window system is that palettes can now be created for view TopComponents.

Below, a TopComponent in the "explorer" position is selected, which results in the Palette opening and showing items that can be dragged into the TopComponent:

And here, in the same application, a TopComponent in the "output" position is now selected, which causes the Palette to open, showing items that are relevant to the TopComponent:

I copied code used in the above two TopComponents from this blog entry:

https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/simple_component_palette

Related issue: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209238

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