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| <h1>HOWTO: Use <I>Links</I>, a text mode browser for browsing Javadoc</h1> |
| <FONT CLASS="smalltext">Contributed and maintained by <A HREF="mailto:tboudreau@czech.sun.com">Tim Boudreau</A></FONT> |
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| <A HREF="http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/">Links</A> is a text mode web browser. It's free under the |
| Gnu Public License, supports tables and frames, has a small |
| memory footprint and is very fast. And it's perfect for Javadoc, |
| and can be launched from within NetBeans. |
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| Many distributions of Linux (RedHat, Mandrake) come with Links |
| pre-installed. If you don't have it, you can download binaries |
| for Linux, Win32, OS/2, FreeBSD and BeOS <A |
| HREF="http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/download/binaries/">here</a> |
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| To configure the IDE to use Links, |
| perform the following steps: |
| <UL> |
| <LI>On the Tools menu, select Options.</LI> |
| <LI>Open the IDE Configuration | Server and External Tool Settings folder.</LI> |
| <LI>Right-click the Web Browsers node, choose New | External Browser, and type |
| <tt>Links</tt> as the browser's name.</LI> |
| <LI>Expand the Web Browsers node and select the Links node (which was created as a result of the previous step).</LI> |
| <LI>On the property sheet, click the Browser Executable property to edit it</LI> |
| <LI>Set the property to</LI> |
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| <LI>On Unix:</LI> |
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| <CODE> |
| xterm -geometry 130x50+50+50 +sb -e links {URL} |
| </CODE> |
| </BLOCKQUOTE> |
| <LI>On Windows:</LI> |
| <BLOCKQUOTE> |
| <CODE> |
| links {URL} |
| </CODE> |
| </BLOCKQUOTE> |
| </UL> |
| <LI>Choose Tools | Setup Wizard.</LI> |
| <LI>In the Web Browser combo box, select Links.</LI> |
| <LI>Click Finish to dismiss the wizard.</LI> |
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| <P class="default"> The next time you browse JavaDoc from within the IDE, the |
| Links browser will be started. |
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| Links is generally useful as a fast, lightweight web browser. If |
| you want to use it as such and have to use a proxy, you may want |
| to start it as follows <CODE>links -http-proxy proxyhost:port |
| http://www.somewhere.com</CODE>. |
| Enjoy! |
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