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Summary: | Do not interpret click that brings application to foreground | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | peastman <peastman> |
Component: | JDK Problems | Assignee: | Stanislav Aubrecht <saubrecht> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 7.3 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Mac OS X | ||
URL: | http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=9005674 | ||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
peastman
2013-05-10 23:05:57 UTC
Please provide JDK, OS and NetBeans version info and reopen, thanks. This has been present in every NetBeans version and every OS version for as long as I've been using it. Here are the details from the "About NetBeans" window for my current configuration: Product Version: NetBeans IDE 7.3 (Build 201302132200) Java: 1.6.0_45; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 20.45-b01-451 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.6.0_45-b06-451-11M4406 System: Mac OS X version 10.8.3 running on x86_64; MacRoman; en_US (nb) Thanks for the info. Can you reproduce the problem with some other plain Swing application? E.g. some demo application from NetBeans sample projects? It's a problem in JDK implementation as it is reproducible in a plain Swing app (Anagrams demo in NetBeans) I tried clicking into Safari toolbar when other application was in foreground and that click activated the Safari window AND the toolbar button was pressed. Mac OS X 10.8.4 Apple has specific guidelines about this. See http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Windows/Windows.html, specifically the section on "Enabling Click-Through". The normal behavior in Mac applications is that clicks to background windows are not processed. Exceptions are supposed to be made only when there's a good reason. The current behavior in Netbeans violates several of their guidelines. For example, it allows click through to remove the user from the current context (such as by changing tabs), and it doesn't provide confirmation feedback for much of anything. More importantly, this is just a bad way for the user interface to work. It produces irritating, unwanted effects. Reported as JDK bug. |