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Lecture about Netbeans for Art & Technology at UCSD
This document provides instructions for installing Netbeans IDE and creating a simple "Hello World" Java MIDlet application for mobile devices using Netbeans. It discusses downloading Java JDK and J2ME, installing Netbeans 6.1, creating a new MIDP application project in Netbeans, configuring the project properties and deployment options, adding images and screen commands, and tips for compatibility across different mobile devices.
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- 1. Netbeans (with rice…)@ UCSD, 2008 Cicero Silva www.cicerosilva.com
- 2. First…downloads… To runNetbeans, you’ll need: JDK: Java Development Kit, from: http: //java . sun . com/javase/downloads/ea . jsp
- 3. and….. J2ME (nowJava Wireless Toolkit), to test your MIDlets: http: //java . sun . com/products/sjwtoolkit/download . html ? feed=JSC
- 4. and, finally Netbeans,from netbeans.org . You can install the latest version, 6.1 (which is not stable and can crash some old Windows Mobile OS and also Symbiam systems…) http: //download . netbeans . org/netbeans/6 .1/final/
- 5. Hello World! Yourfirst Java application with Netbeans: Netbeans is a IDE (Integrated Development Environment), which comes with a Mobility package/interface for Java apps; The JAVA app for cell phones is called MIDlet, also called MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile)
- 6. My first… FILE> New Project (CTRL+SHIFT+N) Categories: MOBILITY Projects: MIDP APPLICATION
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- 10. Right click onthe “Projects/HelloUCSD”
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- 12. Select “Properties” Select“Creating JAR”: the NAME of the FILE that users will download from your website to their cell phones…
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- 14. Obfuscating… If youare pro Intellectual Property, it’s better use this in the level 10, but be careful ‘cause you can crash some Windows Mobile phones and also some Blackberry’s…
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- 16. Select “Deploying” tosave a copy of your project and select a “Deployment Method”. You can chose “FILE”, publish it online using FTP (you’ll need to set up an account..) or send it to a cell phone device…it also has an option to send it to Windows cell phone environments…
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- 18. Inserting images Dragand Drop a “SplashScreen” cell below your “form” cell… Click on the name of the “SplashScreen” cell and rename it…
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- 20. Click in the“exit command” and delete it from the “form” cell…
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- 22. Drag and Dropa “ScreenCommand” cell into the “form” cell…
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- 24. In the “ScreenCommands Properties”, on your right, select “TYPE” and OK. Click in the option “Action” and where you read “do nothing”, click twice and then select “go to previous…”
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- 27. Drag the arrowand point it to the cell that you want to send the “command”
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- 30. Click twice onthe SplashScreen name option and rename it (it’ll be thename of the class) Click twice in the option “Commands”
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- 33. Click on “imagenot specified” and select the image by clicking “add”
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- 38. suggestions images: ifyou want your project running on 90% of the cell phones, I suggest that you use 30x30 or 40x40px (always PNG format) Text: avoid embedded fonts (90% of the cell phones will leak memory (sometimes, reboot many many times the system…) Draw your project first, on a MAP, using UML or something like, or just the same orientated object model of Netbeans…
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