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Bug 116659 - Moving existing components to white space (other components) should be consistent and understandable
Summary: Moving existing components to white space (other components) should be consis...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: guibuilder
Classification: Unclassified
Component: App Framework (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: Sun All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@guibuilder
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Reported: 2007-09-25 12:30 UTC by Jana Maleckova
Modified: 2008-05-05 12:22 UTC (History)
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Description Jana Maleckova 2007-09-25 12:30:22 UTC 
Standard behavior of all visual swing components (except menu comp.) in form is to have possibility to move them from
design to white space - exactly move them to non visual place named other components. There could be many reasons why
users are doing it. But it's usual and should be applied to menu components as well. Now it can be done just via
inspector not in design.
Comment 1 Jana Maleckova 2007-09-25 14:21:14 UTC 
moving of all already inserted visual components in design could be handled better as well. Exactly if user move e.g.
jButton from design to white space, some warning message could be arisen: like really want to place this comp. to non
visual place: OK/Cancel
This could prevent user to do something which he doesn't really want do and thanks to it he has better overview about
storage of all components
Comment 2 Tomas Pavek 2007-09-25 14:35:44 UTC 
Currently menu components can't be moved from menu designer to Other Components, while visual components can.
We should make sure it behaves the same way - and that the user understands what's happening. The meaning of the white 
space is not very obvious to many users. Maybe show a menu with choices: 'Move to Other Components' and 'Cancel Move'.

Note this is about existing components, adding from palette is a slightly different, though some indication of 
targeting the Other Components would be nice as well.
Comment 3 kate 2008-05-05 12:22:45 UTC 
related issue
http://qa.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99699