NetBeans Architecture Answers for JavaHelp Integration module

WARNING: answering questions version 1.12 rather than the current 1.29.

Interfaces table

Group of java interfaces
Interface Name In/Out Stability Specified in What Document?
JavaHelpIntegrationAPI Exported Official index.html

ModulesAPI Imported Official .../overview-summary.html

UtilitiesAPI Imported Official ../org-openide-util/overview-summary.html

ServicesAPI Imported Official .../org/openide/util/doc-files/api.html

NodesAPI Imported Official .../overview-summary.html

WindowSystemAPI Imported Official .../overview-summary.html

ActionsAPI Imported Official .../overview-summary.html

ModalityExcludeAPI Imported Friend

offered by some JDKs and tracked as Java bug (5092094) allowing to exclude modal dialogs behaviour for certain windows - in this case the help window.

Group of property interfaces
Interface Name In/Out Stability Specified in What Document?
OpenIDE-mergeIntoMaster Exported Official

The context and key OpenIDE/mergeIntoMaster can be set as an attribute on a help set provided programmatically rather than with an XML file to customize one attribute. Such programmatic provision is rare but supported.

javahelp.ignore.modality Exported Friend

The help window through JDK 1.5.0 handles modal dialogs by reparenting the help component into a child dialog of any new modal dialog whenever it is shown, and reparenting it back into a frame whenever it is hidden. Under certain circumstances (showing two dialogs sequentially before the frame can be re-shown), it can produce a race condition in the underlying java.awt.Toolkit implementation. As a workaround, callers of DialogDisplayer.getDefault().notify(DialogDescriptor) may set the system property "javahelp.ignore.modality" to the String "true". This system property will be reset by notify(), and applied as a client property of the root pane of the dialog to be shown. JavaHelp will, in turn, ignore the appearance of any dialog whose root pane posesses the client property "javahelp.ignore.modality" with the String value "true".

Group of dtd interfaces
Interface Name In/Out Stability Specified in What Document?
ObjectTag Exported Friend overview-summary.html


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