NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #97

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Issue #97 - Dec 30, 2002
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*nbdev*

Is the hour glass mouse cursor necessary when expanding nodes?
Discussion about implementation of "pleas wait" node turned into UI talk:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=438512&listName=nbdev

Tim Boudreau started rewrite of PropertySheet as JTable. Read about a
possible UI and API impact:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=438531&listName=nbdev

Tim Boudreau also proposed a way how to manage UIDefaults and hard-coded
colors:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=438534&listName=nbdev

*nbui*

The discussion about New... context menu continued on nbui. Read the
feedback on the last proposal:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=438338&listName=nbui

The UI discussion about hour glass cursor moved to nbui:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=438512&listName=nbdev

*nbannounce*

Maxym Mykhalchuk announced the new Release Candidate (RC2) of Merak. Try
it out at http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/download.html, and read the
full announcement at:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=439722&listName=nbannounce

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