Tool Windows

Basics

What was a derivative of org.esa.beam.framework.ui.application.support.AbstractToolView

public class ${NAME}ToolView extends AbstractToolView {
   ...
}

becomes a derivative of org.openide.windows.TopComponent:

public class ${NAME}TopComponent extends TopComponent {
   ...
}

Help

In most toolwindows we had a help button, created and initialised like this:

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This code can be replaced by within a <Name>TopComponent${NAME}TopComponent.initComponents() method as follows:

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