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Bug 216032

Summary: Preferences dialog does not appear on mac
Product: platform Reporter: noga
Component: Options&SettingsAssignee: Theofanis Oikonomou <theofanis>
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE    
Severity: normal CC: mmirilovic
Priority: P1    
Version: 7.2   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:
Attachments: IDE log

Description noga 2012-07-26 20:18:14 UTC 
Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.2 (Build 201207171143)
Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.7.4 running on x86_64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.7.0-internal
Runtime = OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 21.0-b17
Comment 1 noga 2012-07-26 20:18:21 UTC 
Created attachment 122429 [details]
IDE log
Comment 2 Theofanis Oikonomou 2012-07-27 14:06:05 UTC 
I do not spot something wrong in the log. Could you please describe how you tried to open the preferences? 

Also could you look into netbeans userdir for the file config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/options/api.properties, check the options OptionsX and OptionsY and report back your findings? Try setting both to something like 100 and see if that helps.

Thank you
Comment 3 noga 2012-07-27 15:24:06 UTC 
I just clicked Netbeans --> Preferences.
Looks like it is a cocoa like application now in Mac.
The same issue I observed from RC1, and it persists still.
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NogaMacPro:modules nmondal$ pwd
/Users/nmondal/Library/Application Support/NetBeans/7.2/config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules
NogaMacPro:modules nmondal$ ls -al
total 40
drwxr-xr-x  8 nmondal  staff  272 Jul 27 01:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 nmondal  staff  170 Jul 27 01:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x  8 nmondal  staff  272 Jul 27 01:43 autoupdate
-rw-r--r--  1 nmondal  staff  458 Jul 27 20:35 autoupdate.properties
-rw-r--r--  1 nmondal  staff  349 Jul 27 01:48 bugtracking.properties
-rw-r--r--  1 nmondal  staff   25 Jul 27 01:48 bugzilla.properties
-rw-r--r--  1 nmondal  staff   71 Jul 27 20:35 uihandler.properties
-rw-r--r--  1 nmondal  staff   88 Jul 27 20:34 welcome.properties
NogaMacPro:modules nmondal$ 
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As you can see, under this, there are no options directory. 

I tried manually creating it, and set the properties as you have mentioned, did not help.

Thanks,
--Noga