Package org.openide

Miscellaneous general classes, especially the util classes to handle a user notifications, displaying dialogs and wizards.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
WizardDescriptor.AsynchronousInstantiatingIterator<Data>	Iterator for a wizard that needs to somehow instantiate new objects outside ATW queue.
WizardDescriptor.AsynchronousValidatingPanel<Data>	A special interface for panels that need to do additional asynchronous validation when Next or Finish button is clicked.
WizardDescriptor.BackgroundInstantiatingIterator<Data>	Iterator for a wizard that will create new objects after the wizard has been closed.
WizardDescriptor.ExtendedAsynchronousValidatingPanel<Data>	A special interface for panels that need to do additional asynchronous validation when Next or Finish button is clicked.
WizardDescriptor.FinishablePanel<Data>	A special interface for panel that needs to dynamically enabled Finish button.
WizardDescriptor.FinishPanel<Data>	Deprecated 4.28 Use FinishablePanel instead.
WizardDescriptor.InstantiatingIterator<Data>	Iterator for a wizard that needs to somehow instantiate new objects.
WizardDescriptor.Iterator<Data>	Iterator on the sequence of panels.
WizardDescriptor.Panel<Data>	One wizard panel with a component on it.
WizardDescriptor.ProgressInstantiatingIterator<Data>	Iterator for a wizard that wants to notify users while instantiate is running by a progress bar.
WizardDescriptor.ValidatingPanel<Data>	A special interface for panels that need to do additional validation when Next or Finish button is clicked.

Class Summary

Class	Description
DialogDescriptor	A description of a standard dialog.
DialogDisplayer	Permits dialogs to be displayed.
NotificationLineSupport	Helper class to simplify handling with error/warning/info messages.
NotifyDescriptor	This class provides a description of a user notification to be displayed.
NotifyDescriptor.Confirmation	Provides a description of a possible action and requests confirmation from the user before proceeding.
NotifyDescriptor.Exception	Deprecated No longer used.
NotifyDescriptor.InputLine	Notification providing for a line of text input.
NotifyDescriptor.Message	Provides information about the results of a command.
WizardDescriptor	Implements a basic "wizard" GUI system.
WizardDescriptor.ArrayIterator<Data>	Special iterator that works on an array of Panels.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
WizardValidationException	The exception informs about fail in wizard panel validation and provides a localized description what's wrong.

Package org.openide Description

Miscellaneous general classes, especially the util classes to handle a user notifications, displaying dialogs and wizards.

See DialogDisplayer and referenced classes for displaying dialogs.
See NotifyDescriptor which provides a description of a user notification to be displayed.
WizardDescriptor is the framework provides creating and handling dialogs which leads a user step-to-step through task. See also wizard guidebook which describes the set of properties controls the wizard panel's layout.