This Bugzilla instance is a read-only archive of historic NetBeans bug reports. To report a bug in NetBeans please follow the project's instructions for reporting issues.
Build 200401271900-ismp5 How to reproduce: 1) Run installer by double click in the explorer. 2) ERROR: Installer's window doesn't take focus when opened! Explorer is still active.
I was able to reproduce this about 2 out of 15 tries. I downloaded the 1/28/04 dev build on my windows 2k professional machine. I double clicked on icon in explorer. When the installer popped up, I pressed the space bar and the installer showed the next panel except for two times. I tried this with my own jar file I created today and it worked fine. So I'm not sure why this happens. Can you reproduce this every time? Are you pressing the space bar or the enter key because only the space bar works. If you're talking about the window bar not showing as active, I don't see that at all.
First of all, it 100% reproducible :-( ... I got it about 30 times -- anytime I tested installer :-( on W2K SP2 and W2K SP4 I'll try to refine: 1) Open Windows' file explorer (maximized) 2) double click exe file 3) put hands out of the mouse and keyboard 4) wait a moment 5) a dialog "InstallShield Wizard" appears ... progress bar is running several times through 6) still waiting until there's any disk or CPU activity 7) ERROR: Explorer window still on the top, still active. I can see the Wizard's icon on the windows task bar, but that's all. To continue I have to click it's icon on task bar (or switch process using Atl-TAB).
Karl, I can't reproduce this on a windows xp and I won't be able to test on a windows 2k until monday. If you have time before then, can you try to reproduce once more. When I switched the default interface to swing for another bug fix, it may have fixed this too. If not, I'll verify on monday.
Still a bug on W2K even after Swing switch :-(. I'll try on WinXP soon. Notice: Uninstall has focus after running it ... seems to be problem only of the install action.
*** Issue 41662 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Status of this issue with latest dev build?
Keep in mind it may depend on JDK. You can set JDK used to run installer using -is:jdkhome command line switch. Please test with JDK 1.4.2_07 and JDK 5.0u1 (or latest build of JDK 5.0u3).
I just tested current daily dev build NB installer netbeans-4_1-daily-bin-200503170655-windows-17_Mar_2005_0655.exe on Win XP with JDK 5.0u1 and JDK 5.0u3 build 05 and it works fine. Next button is focused after start of installer. Please reopen if you find any problem.
I tested also on Win2K SP4, JDK 5.0u3 b05 and I could not reproduce it. Focus was always on Next button after installer start. The installer as in previous post. 5 attempts.