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Mark Phipps updated NETBEANS-1979:
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Labels: api-change newbie pull-request-available (was: newbie
pull-request-available)
> Allow Modes to be created programmatically from XML
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> Key: NETBEANS-1979
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1979
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: platform - Window System
> Affects Versions: 10.0
> Reporter: Mark Phipps
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: api-change, newbie, pull-request-available
> Attachments: google-safer-email.zip
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> I work for Sucden Financial Limited and I run a team that develops a trading
> system called STAR which has a Java Swing front end desktop application which
> we have recently (it has taken a couple of years!) ported to the NetBeans
> Platform, all with Maven.
> A feature of the application is where the user is able to save the layouts of
> windows and panels in different combinations and load them up as required. We
> call this work-space management. The entire layout of all the windows and
> their components is saved in one XML file. (Note this is NOT the same as the
> term "work space" which I have seen is a deprecated mechanism inside the
> NetBeans window system and I am not suggesting that should be resurrected.)
> To enable that feature in the NetBeans Platform, I made some minor additions
> to the openide.windows module and small changes/refactoring to the
> core.windows module to be able to capture the XML representation of
> ModeConfig objects and subsequently reproduce Modes by passing XML into
> WindowManager/WindowManagerImpl.
> As I have ported our application to the Platform and investigated the window
> system api and internals, It seemed to me that the original intention of the
> window system and TopComponent relationship makes the assumption that some
> kind of file on disk would always be associated with a TopComponent, but that
> is definitely not our use case. Furthermore, only saving the layout of Modes
> at application shutdown, within a NetBeans userdir rooted location is also
> not suitable.
> With these modifications, an application can capture and reproduce the Modes
> required for TopComponents to be docked into, which is essential for us and I
> think would be a useful feature in the windows api for other developers to
> use.
> I have pushed these changes on my fork at
> [https://github.com/phipma/incubator-netbeans/commit/cc170aa195c1f843edb3badff83776c2f794440c]
> I am new at this and I have only done the minimum required to satisfy our
> needs, so apologies if anyone considers it amateurish!
>
>
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