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[ BUILD # : 200408121535 ] [ JDK VERSION : J2SE 1.4.2_04 ] As best as I can tell there is no way to associated the F9 key with any ant task to compile a particular file. A major ergonimic negative with it comes to the free form project. My recommendation is to add another line in th ebould and run properties page and wizard page labeled "compile" that will be run when buid->compile file is selected or "F9" is pressed. This would use the project for the file that the focused file is in.
No plans to put this in the GUI, at least not for 4.0. (The property dialog for freeform projects might be expanded in future releases; the main constraints are time to implement and test, since GUIs are much slower and buggier to write; and the risk of bloating the GUI to the point that simple and common things are hard to find with all the noise.) However you can already bind this action ("compile.single") in the project.xml; you need to specify an Ant property which will hold the name of the file(s) to be compiled. A guide for advanced customization of freeform projects is planned but it is not available yet. You can get an idea of the possibilities with these links: http://www.netbeans.org/source/browse/performance/threaddemo/ http://www.netbeans.org/source/browse/ant/freeform/eg/simple/
What we absolutely need then is a document listing all of these "magic names" and what pieces of the UI they match up to.
Of course. As I said, it is under development. John Jullion is preparing it I believe.
very old issue resolved a long time ago, closing
No, this was not fixed a long time ago. Still in GUI of 5.0 beta2 there is no way to associate any compile task with the F9 Key. The bug sin't that there is no way in general, but that there is no support in the GUI for this. This is also freform ant (in cast there is a difference) If netbeans is not going to fix it close it as WONTFIX rather than claiming it was resolved.
See issue #46886 for background. As of 4.1 you can just press F9 and the IDE should offer to generate a target for you and bind it. Also see http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/freeform-config.html *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 46886 ***