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| Summary: | Toolbars resize policies (Toolbars occupy more vertical space then needed after window resize) | ||
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| Product: | platform | Reporter: | cnschoen <cnschoen> |
| Component: | Window System | Assignee: | Stanislav Aubrecht <saubrecht> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | blocker | CC: | jrojcek, mslama, saubrecht |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Attachments: | Window after operations | ||
Created attachment 51663 [details]
Window after operations
I see, what you are saying is that toolbars should return to fill only just one row automatically - return to the state before window resizing, right? Well, that's a bit complicated. Currently we have "half-automatic" toolbar sizing, which tries to ensure that toolbar buttons are always visible, which is good thing IHMO, but leads to the problems you mentioned. IMHO we should decide between two toolbar modes or enable both: 1) "Fixed" mode, where toolbars won't change positions automatically at all. When some toolbar buttons are made invisible, there is "extra" button to reach hidden buttons. That's the way how OpenOffice does it for example. 2) "Automatic" mode, which ensures that toolbar buttons are always visible and always occupy minimum number of rows as possible. User can't move toolbars in this mode freely, he/she can only reorder them. Current behavior is as designed, so I'm changing to enhancement and ccing people that may be interested in. I want to add a new problem for that. I have a laptop normally connected to its docker, with two screens (internal + external). NB remembers windows positions & sizes, but sometimes, when I use only the internal panel of the laptop, the main window is positioned in the left side of the screen with a width of 0. This is due to the fact that normally, this window is on the other screen. But now, I use this window in the maximized state. At startup, the main window display itself in the "normal" size (not maximized), and then maximizes itself. But my computer is too fast for me to notice that size change. Here is the symptom : each time I start NB, my three toolbars are on three lines. I've spent a looooooooooooong time not understanding what was happening. A workaround is to give a "normal" size to the not maximized window. But except the fact that Swing really sucks by not maximizing windows when calling setVisible(true), the toolbar positions should be saved to be restored after startup. Passing to Standa, perhaps somewhere is duplicate already? *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 140863 *** reopening because this one should stay opened closing the duplicated one *** Issue 140863 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** the toolbars should behave correctly now - 4f828389f2be as for the resizing of splitters in the main window - that's how netbeans ide works. please file a new RFE if you'd like some automatic resizing *** Issue 155181 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** |
1. start Netbeans 6.0 Beta 2 or 5.5.1 after installing it for the first time (runs in a normal window, not in fullsreen mode)) 2. pick the right bottom corner and rotate with the mouse. (you can see how slow the Netbeans window is repainted on a 3 GHz Pentium PC - Sorry, but Eclipse is here much faster ...) 3. The error appears if the window is minimized by moving the mouse to the upper left corner (and the Netbeans window client area has the height=0 and width=0) After resizing the window there is only the start page (and no file explorer + project window) The Toolbar has 3 rows of icons. - But there would be more than enough space for the icons in the first row