NetBeans Weekly News #77

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Issue #77 - Aug 05, 2002
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|* Builds

RC1 build is available, it can be downloaded at:
<http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/download.html>
It is evident RC2 is needed, there are some open P1/P2 issues
preventing to meet the NB 3.4 release criteria.



* Contributions

Unicode character picker module:
<http://contrib.netbeans.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList 
<http://contrib.netbeans.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList>>

WebDAV filesystem module announcement:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358780&listName=nbdev 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358780&listName=nbdev>>

ComboSwitcher module has been updated and is available at the Alpha
Autoupdate server:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358408&listName=nbdev 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358408&listName=nbdev>>



* Discussions

The following two threads are related to users' experience
with NB 3.4 RC1 build:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=357269&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=357269&listName=nbusers>>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=359128&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=359128&listName=nbusers>>

Do you miss a class hirerchy view in Netbeans ?
Join discussion on this topic:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=357507&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=357507&listName=nbusers>>

Do you feel you have something to say about setting NB Look&Feel?
Discuss it at:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358786&listName=nbui 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358786&listName=nbui>>

Are you interested in rewriting the default delete action ?
See:
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=356464&listName=dev 
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=356464&listName=dev>>

How to define and use project specific options is discussed in the
following thread:
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=357457&listName=dev 
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=357457&listName=dev>>

Have you encoutered any problems when trying to upgrade to Ant 1.5?
May be this thread will help you:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=356258&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=356258&listName=nbusers>>

A discussion covering the usage of FTP filesystems follows:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358157&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=358157&listName=nbusers>>

Do you like code completion and do not you know how it works with
your own or third party classes ? Read this:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=359373&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=359373&listName=nbusers>>

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