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Bug 239520

Summary: Option to not automatically open external libraries in view "projects"
Product: projects Reporter: Trancer
Component: Generic Projects UIAssignee: Tomas Stupka <tstupka>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4    
Version: 8.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Attachments: screenshot1
Screenshot2

Description Trancer 2013-12-16 11:11:41 UTC
Created attachment 143208 [details]
screenshot1

When I browse in java Framework for information (screenshot1), immediately view "Projects" displays the library. It then becomes difficult to navigate correctly in my solution. In these cases, I have to constantly right click and select "collapse all" to find my projects.

Is it possible to have an option to disable the opening of external libraries in the project view ?

Thank you for your attention.
Sébastien.
Comment 1 Trancer 2013-12-16 11:12:08 UTC
Created attachment 143209 [details]
Screenshot2
Comment 2 Milos Kleint 2014-01-28 08:15:26 UTC
so you turned on the "View/Synchronize editor with views" main menu checkbox?
Comment 3 Milos Kleint 2014-01-28 08:43:24 UTC
affected code is ProjectTab.createSelectionTask() nut the actual searching is delegated to project type implementations via PathFinder/LogicalViewProvider.findPath(Node root, Object target)

This api is used from other  places as well (Select in projects action etc) and finding a way to distinguish the usecases might prove hard to achieve.
Comment 4 Trancer 2014-03-02 16:42:50 UTC
Sorry for the late reply ...

so you turned on the "View/Synchronize editor with views" main menu checkbox?
=> Yes, iI found this really great feature, but if there was an option to disable it in the case of navigation outside the project, it will be great.
Comment 5 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 08:39:39 UTC
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss