The
NetBeans Wiki about
DevFaqInitalMainWindowSize already gives an initial hint of how to control the size of your TopComponent at startup.What was missing for me was: How to place 2 (or more) TopComponents (both being of type "editor") next to each other ?
I will show the answer to this in a test RCP in painful detailed steps to avoid any misunderstandings.
Assume we have a NetBeans Platform application with name
PreDefineSize having two modules with names
module1 holding the
LeftTopComponent and a
module2 holding the
RightTopComponent.
Performing a Clean and Build and run will give
Assume that we would like the application
at startup with both TopComponents next to each other with about 75% to the Left and 25% of the horizontal space to the Right module. I.e. Something like:
How to achieve this ?
1) After you have resized and placed the 2 TopComponents as you want, Click the LEFT module tab (just to make it the last active) and then exit the application.
2) Go to
PreDefineSize/build/testuserdir/config/Windows2Local
3) Copy the
WindowManager.wswmgr to the src directory of
module1
4) Go to
PreDefineSize/build/testuserdir/config/Windows2Local/Modes
5) Copy the
editor.wsmode to the src directory of
module1 and
rename to
editorWsmode.xml
6) Copy the
anonymousMode_1.wsmode to the src directory of
module1 and
rename to
editorRightWsmode.xml
7) Go to
PreDefineSize/build/testuserdir/config/Windows2Local/Modes/anonymousMode_1
8) Copy the
RightTopComponent.wstcref to the src directory of
module1
9) Modify the
editorRightWsmode.xml file and the value of the "
unique" attribute to
editorRight
Note : In line 8 you might see that the "
number" attribute is controlling the order.
10) Create the XML layer file in module1 like below
11) From the tree above open the module1- Important Files - XML Layer .... Modes
12) Create a new folder called
editorRight
13) Edit the
layer.xml in the src directory of
module1 file like below
14) Now do a Clean and Build and the application will start with the layout and size you decided in Step 1
Here is the entire test NetBeans project :
PreDefineSize NB Project ZIP
