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WizardDescriptor supports various properties such as PROP_AUTO_WIZARD_STYLE, PROP_HELP_DISPLAYED etc. these constants are private variables. it is very pain to refer to the documentation every time, and add //NOI18N in my code. plz expose these variables and/or provide methods like public void setAutoWizardStype(boolean) public void setImage(Image) public void setLeftDimention(Dimention) I suggest providing such methods as developers don't need to remember the value type of a property. currenty I MyWizardDescriptor which extends WizardDiscriptor and added such methods. Now I use MyWizardDescriptor at all places instead of WizardDescriptor. this made my life easier. It takes just 5 minutes to fix this.
Yes, it should be better. There is issue 26552 improve the WD API and rid of client-properties, it's being developed in branch wizards_26552 but not in progress for in promoE.
As more people starting to build applications on top of NB platform a lot of people are asking similar question on mailing list. I think that at least getting rid of those "strings" is P1 and should be done for next release. (in the case that the whole API is not planned ;)
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