Overview (NetBeans Project UI API) - NetBeans API Javadoc 5.0.0

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Project UI API
org.netbeans.api.project.ui
org.netbeans.spi.project.ui	Ability to provide a tailored UI for a project.
org.netbeans.spi.project.ui.support	Helpful UI support classes for general projects.
org.netbeans.spi.project.ui.templates.support	Support for providing own templates visible in New File... action.

• ProjectUIAPI

  The Project UI API provides some miscellaneous APIs and SPIs relating to the appearance and UI behavior of generic projects. Most importantly, it permits the customizer and logical view of a project to be defined.

• ProjectUIAPI-provider

  Callbacks intended to let the Project UI module plug in implementations of APIs defined here. Uses implementation dependencies.

What is New (see all changes)?

• Aug 26 '05 Ability to get and set main project

  Added getMainProject and setMainProject methods to OpenProjects.

• Aug 22 '05 Project Delete/Copy/Rename/Move Support Added, Support for Default Project Delete/Copy/Rename/Move Added

  Introduced:

  • CommonProjectActions.deleteProjectAction, CommonProjectActions.copyProjectAction, CommonProjectActions.moveProjectAction, CommonProjectActions.removeProjectAction methods.
  • DefaultProjectOperations support to simplify implementation of project delete/copy/rename/move for simple projects.

• Jul 28 '05 Added ability to set an error message for project customizer's categories.

  Added ProjectCustomizer.Category.setErrorMessage and ProjectCustomizer.Category.getErrorMessage methods. With those methods client can set an error message for individual categories. Also the default implementation of a customizer dialog uses these methods for showing a message on the bottom of category views and to mark category nodes for invalid categories (similar to the error message in wizards).

• Jul 28 '05 Added ability to set whether a project customizer's categories are valid.

  Added ProjectCustomizer.Category.setValid and ProjectCustomizer.Category.isValid methods. With those methods client can affect whether the OK button of the Customizer dialog is enabled.

• May 17 '05 New Project Wizard Action

  Introduced:

  • CommonProjectActions.newProjectAction method
  • CommonProjectActions.EXISTING_SOURCES_FOLDER property
  • Templates.getExistingSourcesFolder method

Use Cases

Exported Interfaces

    <folder name="Projects" >
        <folder name="Actions" >
            <file name="org-mymodule-MyAction.instance" >
                <attr name="instanceCreate" stringvalue="org.mymodule.MyAction" />
            </file>
        </folder>
    </folder>
    

Implementation Details

What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one?

   OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.modules.projectuiapi/1 > ${OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version}
  

Read more about the implementation in the answers to architecture questions.