Chapter 4. Actions: Let's Make the NetBeans Platform Do Something!
An application's actions are among its most important and central components. In this chapter, you'll learn how to provide actions and how to integrate them into the application's menu bar, toolbar, and pop-up menus. You'll be introduced to specific NetBeans Platform classes that simplify the development and integration of action classes into your application. Moreover, the concepts are explained relevant to the creation of context-sensitive actions.
Overview
The NetBeans Platform bases its actions on the Swing Action Framework. Ultimately, every action rests upon Swing's Action interface. In the simplest case, an action class implements the Action interface or, even more straightforward, ...
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