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Serg
Serg

Reputation: 2946

How to change caret (cursor) blinking rate in NetBeans?

How to change caret (cursor) blinking rate in NetBeans? (7.0)

NetBeans developers say that this is supported as a Swing option, see Bug 124211 - Cursor blink rate too fast but I can't figure out the name of this Swing option to set from the command line.

The closest example of setting Swing option that I found is setting look and feel by putting -J-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel to the netbeans.conf.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 10771

Answers (3)

Utku
Utku

Reputation: 2177

If you would like to disable it for all editors, instead of just the Java editor, add the following:

<entry javaType="java.lang.Integer" name="caret-blink-rate" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>2147483647</value>
</entry>

under the <editor-preferences> element to the file:

config/Editors/Preferences/org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomPreferences.xml

The full paths are:

On Mac:

~/Library/Application Support/NetBeans/8.2/config/Editors/Preferences/org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomPreferences.xml

On Windows:

%APPDATA%\NetBeans\8.2\config\Editors\Preferences\org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomPreferences.xml

Source: https://forums.netbeans.org/topic9561.html

Upvotes: 3

David S.
David S.

Reputation: 6105

I realize this is old, but it's quite high up in google search so I thought I'd add an updated solution. The solution above by Tushar Joshi does not work for me in Netbeans 7.1.1. What I had to do, was quite similar though:

Basically, the setting have moved to <userdir>\config\Editors\text\x-java\Preferences\org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomPreferences.xml.

The path for Unix/Linux is $HOME/.netbeans/<NetbeansVersion>/config/Editors/Preferences/org-netbeans-modules-editor-settings-CustomPreferences.xml.

Exit netbeans and modify the file by adding the entry

<entry javaType="java.lang.Integer" name="caret-blink-rate" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>1000</value>
</entry>

The value is the number of milliseconds of blink rate. I added a whole second. I added it so it lined up alphabetically with the other name properties of the other entries, but I don't know if that's important or not. That's it:)

Upvotes: 20

Tushar Joshi
Tushar Joshi

Reputation: 2224

There was a module for customizing the Cursor Blinking Rate created by Emilian Bold, but that module is not found easily available. Let me provide a less intuitive way but this solution works with NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 as tested by me.

  1. Make sure the NetBeans IDE is shut down before making these changes.

  2. Create file <userdir>/config/Editors/text/x-java/properties.xml
    Here the <userdir> means the User directory used by NetBeans IDE. This directory can be found from the NetBeans Help > About menu. The config folder will already be there in this directory but the folders Editors/text/x-java may not be there and we will have to create them, they are case sensitive. The properties.xml file shall also be created in the x-java folder.

  3. Add the following contents to the properties.xml file


     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <!DOCTYPE properties PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Editor Properties settings
     1.0//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/EditorProperties-1_0.dtd">
     <properties>
         <property class="java.lang.Integer" name="caret-blink-rate" value="0"/>
     </properties>

  1. The value="0" portion can be customized by desired blink rate in miliseconds, the default value used by NetBeans IDE is 300 in my opinion, but it can be changed with a new value, 0 will mean no blinking.

  2. Start NetBeans IDE again and now you will get your desired blink rate for the cursor in Java files.

Upvotes: 7

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