NetBeans 6.7.1 is out - with JavaFX 1.2 support

NetBeans 6.7.1 was released yesterday, which in addition to a number of important bug fixes in various areas, also now includes support for JavaFX. It looks very promising; the biggest problems I mentioned a couple of months ago are fixed. I no longer get any bogus or stale error messages. And the preview pane seems to work - I'm not getting exceptions left and right. Also, the preview panel is docked into the navigator area - that seems like a good place for it. Code completion and import management works as before - which means it might be a little surprising (see my old blog entry for tips), but it works. Unfortunately, my two other pet peeves are still there: No toggle comment, and no mark occurrences jumping - which is extra problematic since there's no Find Usages for the JavaFX support. I took a quick peek at the sources, and adding it is trivial - so I submitted a patch. In the meantime, you can download this .nbm plugin file and install it via Tools > Plugins if you want to get these two features. Cmd-/ to toggle comments, and Ctrl-Up/Down to jump between the occurrences in the current file. Note that I couldn't create a separate plugin to do this - I hacked the existing JavaFX editor support. That's because the mark occurrences feature needs to access a method which is package private (and I didn't want to mess around with reflection - I can't spent time on this). This unfortunately means though that you are using...

Date: July, 28 2009
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/netbeans_6_7_1_is

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