NetBeans Weekly News #61

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Issue #61 - April 15, 2002
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** NB Board **
Ron Goldman, Robert Greig and Jaroslav Tulach are elected NetBans board
members.

** nb3.4 development **
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The development of NetBeans 3.4 is in progress and
we are approaching to milestone 3 (24 APR 2002).
You can track progress on:
<http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/34/index.html>

** New features are comming up **
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* Maximized MDI frame implementation
Marek Slama announced implementation of maximized MDI frame to main
trunk and it seems to be a "wonderful UI improvement".
<http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/wsDesktop34/wsDesktopUISpec.html>

* Window DnD support
You can try Window DnD support on jdk1.4
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=302809&listName=nbui>
<http://core.netbeans.org/windowsystem/DnDUserView.html>

* TreeView with DnD support
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=300965&listName=nbdev>

* SimpleDIff (in XTest)
Martin Brehovsky announced SimpleDiff algorithm change to be able to
compare text files, instead of binary ones.

** discussions / issues **
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Dev:
* Classpath API
The discussion about Classpath API continues:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=299047&listName=nbdev>

* Svata proposed "External executor change" and the discussion seems to
be very valuable.
<http://java.netbeans.org/doc/executor_change.html>

* Loaderswitcher
There is a dicussion abut recently contributed Loaderswitcher module
allowinng
user to select a data object and invoke a dialog to change its type.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=302370&listName=nbdev>

UI:
* Explorer mini status bar
There was a discussion about Explorer mini status bar based on the
proposal at:
<http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/nodedesc/ministatusbar_proposal.html>

* UserDir dialog removed
The UserDir dialog was finally removed (#22085)

* Ben Hutchison found the Jar Packager very difficult and confusing to
use.
  In the following discussion people agreed that the Jar packager would
be much more useful if the user model
  will change to provide "winzip like functionality"

* Close buttons on tabs removal
After the close buttons on tabs removal some people complained...
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=301936&listName=nbui>
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