Better Look&Feel of NetBeans on Mac OS

NetBeans 6.7M2 is going to be public available soon, the new look&feel on Mac OS is very awesome. BTW, -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true is a must option for best font-rendering on my macbook. I added it to netbeans.conf as -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true. Here is a snapshot of my current screen when working on Erlang plugin in Scala:

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NetBeans-macos-090222.png

  • Posted: 2009-02-22 08:00 (Updated: 2009-12-30 07:24)
  • Author: dcaoyuan
  • Categories: NetBeans

Comments

1. Robert Kosara -- 2009-02-22 08:00

That looks a lot better than NetBeans 6.5! Is 6.7 the same as 7.0? I just looked on the NetBeans page, and could only find references to 7.0M1.

Also, does the Scala plugin work with that one? From the screenshot, it seems like it does.

2. SeanJA -- 2009-02-22 08:00

@Robert Kosara

Netbeans 6.7 is the new 7.0... they decided that there were not enough new features to warrant the version jump. So, now it goes: 6.5, 7.0 M1, 6.7M2

3. Caoyuan -- 2009-02-22 08:00

Robert,

Scala plugin almost work with 6.7M2, but there is a know bug of the debugger part, which may throw exception when you try to pick a val. This has been fixed in trunk.

There are some bug fixes for plugin too. For example, set breakpoint in body of Trait is now supported.

4. Stefan -- 2009-02-23 08:00

Loooks really great on Mac. Just one issue: I tried NetBeans Dev Build 20090222, and it there is a unified title + toolbar, but not really: the window cannot be moved by holding the toolbar. Is there a way to get a real Mac unified title + toolbar? If not, I think it would be better to let title and toolbar be separated.

5. Drake -- 2009-02-23 08:00

This looks horrible compared to the screenshot on this site:  http://blogs.sun.com/stan/resource/laf/nbdev.png

I dislike the titlebar, but it's still a progress.

6. Jeremy -- 2009-02-23 08:00

Nice! I've started using Netbeans 6.5 recently and have been really pleased. Does using "-J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz?=true" apply to 6.5 as well?

7. Caoyuan -- 2009-02-23 08:00

@Stefan, What's did you mean unified title+toobar? what I see on my computer it works as I want.

@Drake, I have to say only the titlebar is a bit dark. Comparing to that another one, I think he took the snapshot without selecting it as a current window.

@Jeremy, -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz?=true should also work for NetBeans 6.5

8. Stefan -- 2009-02-24 08:00

@Jeremy: On  http://blogs.sun.com/stan/resource/laf/nbdev.png you can see that title and toolbar is one area. You should be able to move the window by clicking anywhere in that unified area. Couldn't do that with Dev Build 20090222 (on Leopard).

9. Stefan -- 2009-02-24 08:00

@Caoyuan: Sorry, last comment was for you. I am using Java 6 as default Java.

10. -- 2009-02-24 08:00

@Stefan, yes, you are right, in current build, title and title-bar are two parts.