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Summary: | full featured docking for undocked components | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | mbien <mbien> |
Component: | Window System | Assignee: | issues@platform <issues> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | anebuzelsky, geertjan, olangr, saubrecht |
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 6.x | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
Attachments: | Emulating splits :-) |
Description
mbien
2008-02-03 23:39:55 UTC
*** Issue 134576 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** The issue 134576 (it is now marked as a duplicate of this one, as this one is more general) speaks about the window split for an editor window. I think it would be nice to have the window split feature in NB (at least for an editor), as it might simplify working with a large files. Maybe it even won't be so hard to implement it - the window system works pretty well at this moment (thanks to the dev-guys there) and I think many of current features could be reused (you can actually do quite a lot of "fake splitting" at this moment - see the attachment). Created attachment 61524 [details]
Emulating splits :-)
remember: the original report was about weakening the current restriction to have only *one* main window which supports docking/splitting/whatever. The proposal is to allow all features of the main window to be also available for undocked windows. I am working in the financial industry where multi monitor configurations with 6 monitors are common. For us it is essential to have the full docking/sliding functionality of the main application window available in any other undocked (external) window. Then the user can configure his complex workspace for his needs. Currently only the main window is nicely configurable with split dock and sliding. Others (undocked) windows support only tabbed docking, so only one TopComponent can be visible per window. Any application with more than 3 different TopComponents would also benefit. Actually I don't understand why this docking restrictions has been made, as the docking/sliding already works very well for the main window, so I shouldn't be difficult to adapt it to undocked windows. Could we prioritize this or investigate it at least? (In reply to comment #5) I agree fully with pwilly. I also work in the finance industry where the users of our trading client, built on the Netbeans platform, have many monitors and need to customize their workspace across these monitors. It would also be nice if the toolbar (and the menu in a non-Mac environment) was a little more flexible, e.g. could be shown/hidden in external windows as well. |