Re: New TopComponent kind? (in addition to editor and viewer)

Mikael Brännström wrote:
> I'm developing an application on top of the Netbeans platform. Are
> there any ways to replace/customize the editor style TopComponent?
>
> I need a component that occupies the middle part of the window (like
> the "editor" kind), but the component should not be closeable and
> there should only be one instance of it (allways opened).
>
> I know this can be acheived by having an editor component that is not
> closeable, but the close button will still appear, and the tabs and
> all the UI stuff for cycling through the oher editor components that
> are visible (in my case none). I need a clean component without any of
> this, preferrably even without a title.
>
> Can anyone give me a pointer to where to start? E.g. what code/module
> to modify etc.
you probably want to keep the window system as it is, just change the UI 
for "editor" type components. That's all in the tabcontrol module - in 
cvs at core/swing/tabcontrol directory

Milos