Comments on: Netbeans 6.0 – A Reasonable IDE Option?

By: Ann Oreshnikova

Ann Oreshnikova — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:52:15 +0000

Thank you Mathias, you had a good point here
It was your initial comment that produced an impression of totally missing i18n support in IntelliJ IDEA, which made me wonder

By: Mathias Lux

Mathias Lux — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:53:30 +0000

Yeah well, that’s an easy one. Although IDEA offers extensive support for i18n now I clearly miss the “novice approach”: You have to know excactly what you are doing to create a ressource bundle in IDEA, while in Netbeans its a matter of clicking a button (new bundle). In my opinion a wizard button for a new resource bundle on the string editor dialog in the UI designer in IDEA would do the job

Btw. I really appreciate your post about “IDE wars”. I for myself use different IDEs for different tasks. I think it is unlikely that there will be an super master hacker one4all IDE

By: Ann Oreshnikova

Ann Oreshnikova — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:35:01 +0000

Could you please tell what particular i18n features that you found to be nice in NetBeans are missing in IntelliJ IDEA? Your answer would be much appreciated. Thank you.

By: Jiri Vagner

Jiri Vagner — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:46:24 +0000

Your trouble with manipulating underlaying “invisible” panel has one nice solution, but not in NetBeans.

With UI designers in SharpDevelop (.NET Open Source IDE) or IntelliJ IDEA, programmers can use special drag and drop handles (screenshots) at the top left corner of the selected component. Thus users can easily select components inside the component tree and move the selected component around in the designer view using drag and drop. It’s quite a cool feature and I’m sending an enhancement issue to the programmers of the GUI Builder team right now.

(Published from a mail with Jiri Vagner’s permission, THX to Jiri Vagner!)