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Explorer & Property Sheet API
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Explorer & Property Sheet API

org.openide.explorer Many different UI components in NetBeans are actually Explorer views of nodes.

org.openide.explorer.propertysheet The exact properties of a node may be displayed and edited with the Property Sheet.

org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors

org.openide.explorer.view The Explorer is really an abstraction that needs a view to actually display the nodes.

Explorer & Property Sheet API
org.openide.explorer	Many different UI components in NetBeans are actually Explorer views of nodes.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet	The exact properties of a node may be displayed and edited with the Property Sheet.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors
org.openide.explorer.view	The Explorer is really an abstraction that needs a view to actually display the nodes.

What is New (see all changes)?

Nov 9 '06 PropertySheetSettings was deleted
PropertySheetSettings was deleted from org.openide.explorer. To ensure binary compatibility there was added dependency transformation that ensures that for all modules that depend on org.openide.explorer with spec.version < 6.8 is added additional dependency on org.openide.options with spec.version 6.6 during runtime.
May 30 '06 When an external object(s) is dragged over the Explorer, the drag events are passed to Nodes under the cursor.

When an external object (e.g. file(s)) is dragged over the Explorer, the drag events passed to Nodes under the cursor. It means that the appropriate Node is asked whether the dragged object(s) can be dropped to it. The drag support classes will also provide appropriate visual drag feedback - change cursor shape and/or draw drop line indicator.

When the object is dropped then the Node under the cursor will be asked to provide supported PasteTypes that will handle the drop.
Apr 29 '05 Dragging uses Node.drag and ExClipboard.convert
When doing drag and drop of nodes from explorer to another place in explorer the Node.drag method is called when doing copy and in both cases of copy or move the ExClipboard.convert method is called for Transferable containing all the nodes, so one can wrap the whole transfer with pre and post operations.
Mar 30 '05 Added a new ColumnMnemonicCharTTV property to NodeTableModel
The new property allows you to specify a mnemonic character for display names of TreeTableView columns.
Mar 18 '05 One can specify separator for property editor for String[]
One can specify an item separator for properties using string array editor. For example following code:
```
           Node.Property np = new Node.Property (String[].class, ...);
           np.setValue ("item.separator", "-");        
         
```
separates items returned from getAsText and parsed by setAsText by -. List of supported parameters can be found here.

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Exported Interfaces

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Group of java interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
ExplorerAPI	Exported	Official	.../org/openide/explorer/doc-files/api.html
TreeTableViewSortingAPI	Exported	Friend

Group of property interfaces

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Specified in What Document?

netbeans.dnd.enabled

Exported

Private

Checks by Drag & Drop support for views. True is regard as default (no matter what jdk's version). False value disallows Drag & Drop in all views.

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