Re: Removing Tabs, they re-appear

Make sure you have a runtime (not implementation or class path) dependency
on org.netbeans.swing.plaf to make sure your Installer always runs *after*
that one that sets up the default UI delegates.

-Tim

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Jacob L. Anawalt <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are very interested in porting some Java Web Start deployed simple
> Swing apps to the NetBeans Platform but we want it to look as close to how
> they do before being ported as possible, which means removing the space
> consuming weird tabs.
>
> We tried following the tutorial found on Geertjan's blog titled "Farewell
> to Space Consuming Weird Tabs"[0] and in the "Removing Tabs" section of the
> "NetBeans Platform Tutorial for Geospatial Systems"[1].
>
> The first run of the software, when no testuserdir folder exists in the
> build folder it works great. Subsequent runs with the folder existing shows
> the tab again. Deleting the folder makes the tab disappear for the next run.
>
> I've checked and double-checked our implementation of NoTabsTabDisplayerUI
> and it's call from the Installer class. It looks like identical code. (It's
> not easy to copy / paste due to the annoying reformatting and "See more at"
> text added to my copy)
>
> I've even gone and built the MyGeospatialSystem NetBeans Platform
> Application following Scenario 1: Open Map, skipping Scenario 2:
> Geotoolkit, with the Full Screen Mode option and trying to remove tabs. It
> works exactly the same as our test port. The first run has no space
> consuming weird tabs, the second and subsequent runs do.
>
> What am I doing wrong? How do I keep the tabs from returning?
>
> 0)
> https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/farewell_to_space_consuming_weird
> 1) https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-geospatial.html#tabs
>
> PS. It would be nice if the wiki tutorial mentioned needing to force a
> build at the end of Step 5 of Scenario 1 to get Bundle to auto-generate and
> get rid of the IDE reference error.
>
> Please CC, not on the list
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Jacob Anawalt
> Gecko Software, Inc.
> [email protected]
> 435-752-8026
>



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