Re: Connecting an editor to a visualizer

Benno Markiewicz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.openide.devel
Message-ID <CAA_aP4j4K+yiuZs430rMK+8sSmZqgRkg+wRebX3UDuiENTEX7Q@mail.gmail.com> 
2016-02-09 15:14 GMT+01:00 winder <[email protected]>:

> Currently I'm thinking about writing some sort of mediator singleton class
> which the editor can publish to and the visualizer can subscribe to. But
> I'm wondering if there is a built in NetBeans Platform mechanism that I'm
> overlooking?


That sounds like a standard lookup. Your editor puts content to the lookup
and your visualizer listens for those changes in the global lookup. It is
the same principle as the SaveCookie/Saveable. Have look for that in the
tutorials at the learning trail / Geertjans blog

http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-util-lookup/org/openide/util/lookup/InstanceContent.html


With kind regards, markiewb
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