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I'm writing an app in Java and swing using Netbeans, and I need property editor (like this). How I can add it to my application?

m4tx
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  • Hmmm... A property editor. I searched for it a few months ago. I didn't found anything interesting. So I wrote some classes, together over 1500 lines of code.... – Martijn Courteaux Jul 19 '11 at 12:43
  • @MartijnCourteaux is your code available? – Matthew Cornell May 17 '16 at 12:13
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    @MatthewCornell: While it is still under heavy development, it's not available to the public. It contains over 25000 lines of code. It still is a generic project and completely application agnostic. The reason why it's not public yet, is because I'm still not sure what license I want to use and wether I want this to be commercial or not, because it is *super* powerfull and let's you create applications in no-time (really, I build a fully functional EER diagram designer in only 6 hours (screenshot here: http://puu.sh/oVbS0/3741907ec5.png )). – Martijn Courteaux May 17 '16 at 14:19

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I really recommend using the NetBeans Platform. It's really simple and well documented rich client platform. Then you can use exactly the same property editor as in NetBeans. Porting from plain Swing applications to NeatBeans RCP is quite simple too.

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  • The first link - without categories, the second - it's about property editor in JFormDesigner... – m4tx Jul 19 '11 at 12:25
  • Oops right - I missed category requirement. Look at updated response. – zacheusz Jul 19 '11 at 13:07
  • @zacheusz I would need to use the property widget inside my own code, but I had no luck finding how to do this. Do you have any pointers, please? – Matthew Cornell May 17 '16 at 12:14
  • @MatthewCornell please find a property editor example here https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-property-editors.html – zacheusz May 19 '16 at 07:47
  • @zacheusz Thanks. It looks like those are instructions for using it within NetBeans, but not in external non-NB projects, no? – Matthew Cornell May 19 '16 at 12:33