[mikegrundvig]

Thanks, this is incredibly helpful. I often hear from my team that we are limited in what we can use but then I see other teams doing very different things. For instance, I was told outright we had to use the joystick that came with the kit and nothing else. That seemed very odd to me since I know we created a small keypad one year and even won an award for it.

You mention Netbeans as the UI - that's just a Java editor. Can we simply create whatever UI we want then or does it have to run inside of the Netbeans framework or are we customizing an existing editor using Netbeans as the editing tool? Though if it's that last one, I don't see why Netbeans is the only option as there are many excellent editors.

-Mike