NetBeans Platform – how to customize the title bar and remove datestamp

Problem:

When you create a NetBeans Platform project, the title bar includes a datestamp/version identifier which is visually distracting.  You’d like to customize the title bar.

Default title versioning

Right click on the project node, and choose Find.  In the dialog box, search for {0}.

In the results, double click on the first Bundle.properties, in branding/modules…

Replace the lines with {0} with what you desire the title to be:

relaunch the program.

Updated title bar

You can also change the title at runtime with the following code:

Frame f = WindowManager.getDefault().getMainWindow();
f.setTitle("My title");

These are modified instructions based off of a thread found here.  See instructions on how to change the versioning number, if that’s what you desire, here.

 

EDIT:

If you are attempting to change the window title programmatically from an Installer instance, you’ll find that this doesn’t work.  The problem is that you are changing the title too early in the lifecycle.  Instead, you need to do the following:

// Only change the window title when all the UI components are fully loaded.
        WindowManager.getDefault().invokeWhenUIReady(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                WindowManager.getDefault().getMainWindow().setTitle(windowTitle);
            }
        });

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