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NetBeans Nodes API

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Nodes API

org.openide.cookies Cookies are a design pattern used to add behaviors to existing data object and nodes, or to separate implementation from the main object.

org.openide.nodes The IDE uses nodes to represent JavaBeans or other property containers, formed into a hierarchical tree.

org.openide.util.actions

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Jul 14 '05 AbstractNode allows using different icon extensions
Adding possibility for AbstractNode to use PNG files as icons. Adding new final method setIconBaseWithExtension(String baseExt) which replaces the original method for manipulating icon base, setIconBase(String). The original (now deprecated) method stil works the same way, using ".gif" as extension The original method setIconBase(String) delegates to the new one, using the default extension.
Feb 13 '04 FilterNode allows controlling delegation of getValue/setValue calls
From this version, the FilterNode by default delegates all getValue(String) and setValue(String, Object) calls the to the original node. Also, FilterNode now exports two new constants, FilterNode.DELEGATE_SET_VALUE and FilterNode.DELEGATE_GET_VALUE, which can be used to control the delegation of the above mentioned methods.
Jul 16 '03 InplaceEditor interface added to APIs, some deprecations in property sheet rewrite
New interface that allows a property editor to supply an inline editor for the new property sheet added, as part of merging the new property sheet. A method, registerInplaceEditorFactory() has been added to PropertyEnv to allow modules to supply an inplace editor globally for all properties of a given type; also, Node.Property objects may supply a custom inplace editor instance via the hint "inplaceEditor" in getValue(String).
PropertySheetSettings is an old SystemOption subclass that offers settings that affect the display of the property sheet. These settings are irrelevant to the new property sheet.

In order to provide some performance optimizations, it was necessary to un-final the class PropertyEnv. However, it should be treated as final outside the package - there should never be a need to subclass it. A note has been added to its javadoc to this effect.

A non-normative hint may now be supplied by instances of Node.PropertySet to return a localized display name for a tab which the property sheet should use for displaying that and any other property sets which share the name: "tabName".
Apr 7 '03 New FilterNode constructor that takes Lookup
Allows users of FilterNode to provide own specific lookup.
Feb 26 '03 Returning value of NodeOp.findActions method refined
The utility method NodeOp.findActions(Nodep[]) is changed the way it returns an empty array instead of null (for the cases there are no actions found). Also javadoc is refined in that sense.

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Exported Interfaces

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Group of java interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
NodesAPI	Exported	Official	.../org/openide/nodes/doc-files/api.html

Group of property interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
propertiesHelpID	Exported	Stable	For providing help sets for JavaBeans proerties
expertHelpID	Exported	Stable	For providing help sets for JavaBeans properties

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