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Bug 20851 - Explorer views added to Component Palette
Summary: Explorer views added to Component Palette
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: apisupport
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Templates (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 blocker with 9 votes (vote)
Assignee: Martin Kozeny
URL:
Keywords: SIMPLEFIX
: 31660 57644 153627 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 23761
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Reported: 2002-02-25 18:21 UTC by Jesse Glick
Modified: 2013-03-11 22:54 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Jesse Glick 2002-02-25 18:21:19 UTC 
Kind of yucky--e.g. putting ContextTreeView w/ PropertySheetView will
not work, because they have different ideas of what selected vs.
context nodes should be for.

Also PropertyPanel should be supported nicely, somehow.
Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2002-05-14 07:06:24 UTC 
If you need a volunteer, I can help a bit.
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2002-05-14 23:11:03 UTC 
Sure, if you like. I think we need a new template category in
apisupport, "Explorer API", with a panel template (incl. .form file);
and palette beans for common views and I guess also PropertyPanel,
which might need some special property editors for its stuff (not clear).
Comment 3 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:20:46 UTC 
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2003-03-10 16:53:26 UTC 
*** Issue 31660 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2011-10-31 14:26:28 UTC 
*** Bug 153627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jesse Glick 2011-11-09 16:25:16 UTC 
*** Bug 57644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 mienamoo 2013-02-19 06:12:31 UTC 
Here are the Explorer API components I would find really useful to have on the palette:

- BeanTreeView
- OutlineView
Comment 8 _ tboudreau 2013-02-19 06:19:40 UTC 
FWIW, this would be trivial to do in an external module.
Comment 9 mienamoo 2013-02-19 06:24:42 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> FWIW, this would be trivial to do in an external module.

Agreed. But with very little effort it could be a good addition to the IDE itself. It would improve usability and visibility of these very powerful components.
Comment 10 mienamoo 2013-02-19 09:57:29 UTC 
Votes + duplicates > 10. Marking as P2. :)
Comment 11 markiewb 2013-02-19 22:04:40 UTC 
+1: It would be useful.
Comment 12 markiewb 2013-03-11 22:54:44 UTC 
Should be easy. You could even add them manually - see http://netbeansrcp.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/adding-explorer-components-into-the-netbeans-palette/

Any volunteers?