Re: NetBeans visual library API video broken?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 20:23, Geertjan
Wielenga<Geertjan.Wielenga@...> wrote:
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> Fixed this problem by removing that link. It was out of date anyway.

Thank you for that :).

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> Plus, there's another Visual Library related screencast, part 9 of my
> series, which is in the list I added today:
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> http://www.netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
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> Let me know if there are any specific topics around which you'd like a
> screencast... and I'll make it. Screencast-on-demand. But it must be related
> to NetBeans APIs.

Well, there are now 9 top 10 Netbeans API screencasts, how about a
final one that combines snippits from all of them in order to create
some practical real life application. For this I imagine the following
... stop me if I go to far ...

We start with a visual graph scene, based on the 9th screencast ...
but now we extend it VMDGraphScene.

Now we have a palette, again containing a lot of country names.

Next, we will also, using a different palette, lets call it the
continents palette, have the possibility to add an emtpy VMD container
node to the graph scene. The idea that is each new container will
represent a different continent (Europe, Asia, Africa, N/S America,
Oceania).

And, here comes the interesting part, it will be possible to drag and
drop the nodes from the countries palette representing the countries
to the empty continent containers. Can you already see a simple
educational tool evolving?

Now finally, once all the countries have been dragged to the their
respective continents containers there will be the possibility to
press a button in the main Toolbar (much like run project button in
the Netbeans IDE) that verifiers whether all the countries have been
placed in the right continent container. This would have to involve
some serious interaction of the Lookup with the visual library.

In the future I can then imagine someone making a tool based on this
tutorial where each country node would appear as the actual country
shape in the graph pane and it would be possible to puzzle together
Europe and a student would verify if he did a good job. Of course this
then could also be extended to a puzzle software tool.

Now the big question is  ... did I go to far? :)

Of course any other screencast would be fine too, as long as it's
focuses on some practical application (i.e. does something useful)
that shows how a significant number of Netbeans API's interact with
each other - in the real world :). In any case, thank you Geertjan for
the offer to make another screencast whatever it may turn out to be. I
really like them.

Best,

Joris