Deprecated API

Contents

• Deprecated Interfaces
• Deprecated Classes
• Deprecated Fields
• Deprecated Methods
• Deprecated Constructors

Deprecated Interfaces

Interface and Description
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.EnhancedCustomPropertyEditor Use PropertyEnv instead. An example of what needs to be done can be found in the rewrite of RectangleCustomEditor. Another example showing the changes in property editor as well as in its custom component can be found in NbProcessDescriptor{,Custom}Editor.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.EnhancedPropertyEditor Instead of this class, implement ExPropertyEditor and InplaceEditor.Factory. Also create an implementation of InplaceEditor for the custom inline editor. In the attachEnv() method of your ExPropertyEditor, call PropertyEnv.registerInplaceEditorFactory(this). Before you do any of this read the prose documentation on the Explorer API and be sure you cannot do what you need with an existing property editor - it is very rare to actually need to provide a custom editor component.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.ExPropertyModel - Use PropertySupport.Reflection or BeanNode if you need to expose bean properties
org.openide.explorer.view.MenuView.Acceptor This interface is almost the same as NodeAcceptor so it is redundant and obsoleted. Use NodeAcceptor interface instead.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.NodeCustomizer Use PropertyEnv instead.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.NodePropertyEditor Use PropertyEnv instead.

Deprecated Classes

Class and Description
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.DefaultPropertyModel Use org.openide.nodes.PropertySupport.Reflection instead
org.openide.explorer.view.ListTableView Use org.openide.explorer.view.TreeTableView instead.

Deprecated Fields

Field and Description
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.ALWAYS_AS_STRING Relic of the original property sheet implementation, useless.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.iAlphaSort Presumably noone uses this variable. If you want to customize the property sheet look you can change the image files directly (or use your own).
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.iCustomize Presumably noone uses this variable. If you want to customize the property sheet look you can change the image files directly (or use your own).
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.iDisplayWritableOnly Presumably noone uses this variable. If you want to customize the property sheet look you can change the image files directly (or use your own).
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.iNoSort Presumably noone uses this variable. If you want to customize the property sheet look you can change the image files directly (or use your own).
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.iTypeSort Presumably noone uses this variable. If you want to customize the property sheet look you can change the image files directly (or use your own).
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PAINTING_PREFERRED Relic of the original property sheet implementation, does useless.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertyPanel.PROP_PROPERTY_EDITOR - the property editor is re-fetched from the underlying property object as needed. It is up to the property object to cache or not cache the property editor. This property will no longer be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PROPERTY_CURRENT_PAGE Relic of the original property sheet implementation, , will never be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PROPERTY_DISABLED_PROPERTY_COLOR Relic of the original property sheet implementation, , will never be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PROPERTY_DISPLAY_WRITABLE_ONLY Relic of the original property sheet implementation, will never be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PROPERTY_PLASTIC Relic of the original property sheet implementation, , will never be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PROPERTY_PROPERTY_PAINTING_STYLE Relic of the original property sheet implementation, will never be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PROPERTY_SORTING_MODE Relic of the original property sheet implementation, will never be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.PROPERTY_VALUE_COLOR Relic of the original property sheet implementation, will never be fired.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.SORTED_BY_TYPES Not supported since NetBeans 3.6
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.STRING_PREFERRED Relic of the original property sheet implementation, does useless.

Deprecated Methods

Method and Description
org.openide.explorer.view.MenuView.Acceptor.accept(Node) whole interface is obsoleted, use NodeAcceptor.acceptNodes(org.openide.nodes.Node[]) instead.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.getCurrentPage() Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.getDisabledPropertyColor() Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Display of properties is handled by the look and feel.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.getDisplayWritableOnly() Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.getPlastic() Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertyPanel.getPropertyEditor() The property panel does not cache the property editor, and depending on its state, it may not consistently return the same property editor instance on repeated calls. The current implementation will do so for editable states, but there is no guarantee this will remain so in the future.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.getPropertyPaintingStyle() Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.getValueColor() Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Display of properties is handled by the look and feel.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.setCurrentPage(int) Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.setCurrentPage(String) Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.setDisabledPropertyColor(Color) Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.setDisplayWritableOnly(boolean) Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.setPlastic(boolean) Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Display of properties is handled by the look and feel.
org.openide.explorer.view.OutlineView.setProperties(Node.Property[]) This method is here to enable easy replacement of TreeTableView with OutlineView. Use setPropertyColumns(), addPropertyColumn() and removePropertyColumn() instead.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.setPropertyPaintingStyle(int) Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Does nothing.
org.openide.explorer.view.TreeView.setUseSubstringInQuickSearch(boolean) Since 6.42 does nothing, as the quick search feature uses both substring and prefix matching. All prefix matches for the typed characters will appear before substring matches.
org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.PropertySheet.setValueColor(Color) Relic of the original property sheet implementation. Display of properties is handled by the look and feel.
org.openide.explorer.view.NodeRenderer.sharedInstance() This method no longer returns a shared instance, as it caused problems with one view setting properties (such as enabled state) on the renderer and the renderer then being used in its altered state by a different view. Views should create their own instance of NodeRenderer instead.

Deprecated Constructors

Constructor and Description
org.openide.explorer.view.MenuView.Menu(Node, MenuView.Acceptor) use MenuView.Menu.MenuView.Menu(Node, NodeAcceptor)
org.openide.explorer.view.MenuView.Menu(Node, MenuView.Acceptor, boolean) use MenuView.Menu.MenuView.Menu(Node, NodeAcceptor, boolean)
org.openide.explorer.view.MenuView.MenuItem(Node, MenuView.Acceptor) Use proper constructor with (@link NodeAcceptor).
org.openide.explorer.view.MenuView.MenuItem(Node, MenuView.Acceptor, boolean) Use proper constructor with (@link NodeAcceptor).
org.openide.explorer.view.NodeRenderer(boolean) bigIcons was only used by IconView, and not used by that anymore. NodeRenderer will automatically detect if the view it's rendering for is an instance of IconView.