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Steps to reproduce: - create java application project - add jframe form - add popup menu - doubleclick on popup menu component node in Inpector - add a few menu items via popup menu "Add From Palette..." - try to resize popup menu size in designer - select one of the menu items in popup menu - right click inside design area -> exception raise Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200706260205) Java: 1.5.0_12; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_12-b04 System: Linux version 2.6.20-16-generic running on i386; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
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This is a lesser used feature and would require some big changes that are too risky at this point in the release cycle. Because of this we have decided to push this off to the next release of NetBeans. It will not be implemented for 6.0
Reopening - we don't use LATER resulution.
It's a very pitty. User can use menu designer, he can easily add icon, shortcut, change text of items, but not for popups. It will force him to create own tools for generating popup menus. And from this point there is a only little step to use own tools for generating also main menus and throw menu designer away. :( I think, if we are not able to design popups, we should hide "Design this container" action for popups (doubleclick and menu item) in Inspector view.
Oups, I tried to design popups only using Inspector and Properties window and it works. :) So, maybe users will not throw menu designer away ;) , but I'm sure that they will miss cool visual way to create and manage popups.
*** Issue 136270 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 165749 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I can confirm that this needs fixing. The Popup Menu designer does have a very sub-standard user interface. Fair enough that the development for this is quite hard, but please fix soon.