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UI Utilities API

org.openide.awt A set of utility classes pertaining to the visual appearance of NetBeans.

UI Utilities API
org.openide.awt	A set of utility classes pertaining to the visual appearance of NetBeans.

API/SPI for UI related aspects of application.

What is New (see all changes)?

May 4 '07 Added factory class for drop-down buttons
Added a factory class that can create special buttons with a small arrow icon that brings up a popup menu when clicked.
Feb 28 '07 Added TabbedPane with closeable tabs
Added a factory class for special JTabbedPane that displays a small 'close' button in each tab. When user clicks the close button a PropertyChangeEvent is fired from the tabbed pane.
Feb 1 '07 Actions.ButtonActionConnector interface added
The addition enables to plug in additional logic for action enabling and disabling based on for example authorization information. The added SPI interface is being looked up in the default lookup. If there is no implementation the original behaviour is preserverd.
Jun 12 '05 DynamicMenuContent interface added
In order to support MacOSX top menus and to fix problems with deprecated JInlineMenu, this new interface was added that allows to handle dynamic content in Presenter.Menu and Presenter.Popup. If the instance returned by Presenter.Menu/Popup is an instance of DynamicMenuContent, it's methods are consulted when creating/updating the menu. JInlineMenu rewritten to use this new approach in a backward compatible way, however changed during visibility of the menu are not supported. JMenuPlus and JPopupMenuPlus are deprecated and behave exactly like their standard Swing counterparts. Actions.Submenu and Actions.MenuItem now implement DynamicMenuContent interface.
May 4 '05 Make IDE's status bar pluggable.
By registering org.openide.awt.StatusLineElementProvider in the default lookup (META-INF/servides) one can provide a custom component that will be incorporated into the IDE's statusbar. The exact location of your component is determined by the ordering of the providers.

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Exported Interfaces

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Group of java interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
org.openide.awt	Exported	Official	.../org/openide/awt/package-summary.html

Group of logger interfaces

Interface Name In/Out Stability Specified in What Document?

org.netbeans.ui.actions.UI_ACTION_BUTTON_PRESS

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Friend

There is a special support for notifying when an action wrapped by Actions bridge is invoked and how. The support is using Logger.getLogger("org.netbeans.ui.actions") and sents a LogRecord with message UI_ACTION_BUTTON_PRESS, FINER level and paramerters:

{0} instance of the button
{1} class of the button
{2} instance of the action
{3} class of the action
{4} display name of the action

whenever such action is invoked. This message can then be consumed by enhanced UI logger that track what the user is going.

Group of property interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
org.openide.awt.StatusDisplayer.DISPLAY_TIME	Exported	Friend	Status text set in StatusDisplayer is by default shown in status line of NetBeans and is hidden after specified timeout. If not overriden by this property it is done after 5000ms. O means that the last text will be shown and not removed.

Group of lookup interfaces

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ButtonActionConnectorSPI