Re: [Module Development] Visual editor for binary file type

2018-01-13 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, following https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-filetype.html maybe the missing peace is that you can extend DataObject and you add an object to its lookup which provides support for your specific data. public class ABCDataObject extends MultiDataObject { public ABCObject(File

RE: [Module Development] Visual editor for binary file type

2018-01-13 Thread stephen cumminger
Hi Pete. If the binary file type has a unique file extension, you could certainly create a Data Object with the appropriate mime type to open the file and gain access to some of the typical functions for DataObjects that NetBeans enables (copy, rename, delete…) However, if you don’t need all th