Hi Everyone,
I am a "NetBeans Newbie", working on a Linux Fedora 38 Desktop
workstation. I have "Java OpenJDK 17.0.9", "Scala 3.4.0" and "NetBeans
IDE 20" installed. I would like to configure NetBeans so it has context
sensitive help for Scala (eg when you hover or click a key word, info is
displayed in the IDE). I am assuming that NetBeans has a "MetaLS"
compatible interface.
Q1) Is it possible to configure NetBeans to intelligently support Scala
(and maybe Swing)?
Q2) Can you advise on guideline for NetBeans plugins and procedures to
adopt for Scala support?
Q3) Is there a better (easier to install) Layout Manager that I should
be targeting instead of Swing?
Q4) Does NetBeans have a MetaLS interface ?
I tried to follow the guidelines at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/erlybird/files, downloaded
nbscala-7.4_2.10.x-1.6.2.0.zip, and extracted 18 *.nbm plugins. 14 out
of 18 installed OK using NetBeans downloaded plugin manager, but the
remaining 4 have a dependency ("Swing Layout Extensions 1.6.1 found but
>= 1.27.1 needed"). I do not know how to overcome this. Then I realized
that these downloaded plugins are over 10 years old. I am probably off
the rails!
Thanks in advance for any help and advice you can give ...
... JohnP
