Articles
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Use guides to simplify creation of flexible page layouts. Inspired by Desktop Publishing the guides make can be used with a minimum of effort and programmer intervention. Support for the guides is built into the NetBeans plug-in. Say goodbye to the GridBag!
Knowledge Base
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Sometimes it can be useful to pass parameters to a XUI page in order to process some specific logic. Rather that call page functions you might find it easier to pass parameters and then show the page
Goodies
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When you build an application it's often useful to include information about the author, build version and whatever else might be appropriate. This simple about dialog can be copied to your project and customised to include whatever information you think might be appropriate.
Tutorials
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This tutorial takes you through the steps involved in creating a mortgage application using KALIDEOSCOPE editor. We will start with a simple single person application and extend it to allow multiple applicants illustrating in the process how to make use of XUL page definitions, framesets, styles, validations, page navigation and data binding.
Each step of this tutorial has an associated directory from which you can run (run.bat) the application as it exists up to that point. It also contains all of the pages, images and resources needed to run the application.
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This application uses framesets. It could just as easily use a single form layout. This can be done by removing the 'Frames' property from the startup.properties file. The startup page is then specified using the 'StartClass' property and setting it to the name of the XML defined start page.
