This Bugzilla instance is a read-only archive of historic NetBeans bug reports. To report a bug in NetBeans please follow the project's instructions for reporting issues.

Bug 29707

Summary: Hyperlinks should give "activated" feedback
Product: platform Reporter: David-john Burrowes <davidjon>
Component: Output WindowAssignee: t_h <t_h>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: blocker CC: ivan, jdinga, mkleint
Priority: P3 Keywords: UI
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 70469    
Attachments: hyperlink states

Description David-john Burrowes 2002-12-23 23:47:33 UTC
Hyperlinks are sometimes shown in the output
window.  When the userclicks on them, however,
they do not change their appearance to indicate
that they have been successfully clicked.  The
conventional behavior for hyperlinks is that they
are drawn in red during a mouse down, and I think
our usability would be improved if we did that
here too.
Comment 1 _ tboudreau 2003-02-19 15:10:32 UTC
Adding Ivan to cc, he is maintaining term library, where this would
need to be handled.
Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2005-05-09 09:40:21 UTC
Milos, see if this is still relevant.
Comment 3 Milos Kleint 2005-05-09 13:39:46 UTC
IMHO reasonable enhancement. Should be easy to do.
Comment 4 Milos Kleint 2005-05-10 10:36:49 UTC
Jindro, do we want to do this for output?
Comment 5 Jindrich Dinga 2005-05-10 11:19:23 UTC
Yes, it would be nice to have this feature. 

I attached picture how the hyperlink should looks like in non-pressed, mouse pressed and pressed 
state.
Comment 6 Jindrich Dinga 2005-05-10 11:21:30 UTC
Created attachment 22065 [details]
hyperlink states
Comment 7 Milos Kleint 2005-05-10 12:26:46 UTC
Jindro, thanks for clarification.

a few points.

currently we have 2 distinct shades of blue for 'important' and non-important
links (compile errors contra warnings), the important one is has more Saturation.

the red one is for clicked hyperlinks? in my browser I get red color on links
also when  I hover over the link with mouse.
Comment 8 Milos Kleint 2005-05-10 12:27:22 UTC
forgot to reassign again.
Comment 9 David-john Burrowes 2005-05-10 16:40:23 UTC
Can we do something else to distinguish errors from warnings?  For A11Y purposes
it is generally better to not use only color to distinguish different information.
Comment 10 Milos Kleint 2005-05-11 07:15:01 UTC
the output window also stops at the first 'important' link (eg. error)

it would be nice to have something more to distinguish the imporant from
unimportan ones. 
Comment 11 Jindrich Dinga 2005-05-11 11:04:48 UTC
Milosi, I've checked hyperlink's behavior on Windows XP (Mozilla) and on Mac (Safari, Explorer) and it 
behaves in way which describes attached picture. In these browsers the hyperlink is red only when it is 
pressed but not released. After releasing the button the hyperlink becomes purple.On mouse over, a 
gesture appears.

I am going to check the hyperlinks in Output window.
Comment 12 Jindrich Dinga 2005-05-11 11:05:55 UTC
Milosi, I've checked hyperlink's behavior on Windows XP (Mozilla) and on Mac (Safari, Explorer) and it 
behaves in way which describes attached picture. In these browsers the hyperlink is red only when it is 
pressed but not released. After releasing the button the hyperlink becomes purple.On mouse over, a 
gesture appears.

I am going to check the hyperlinks in the Output window.
Comment 13 Jindrich Dinga 2005-05-11 11:08:03 UTC
Ooops...sorry for the mistake :)
Comment 14 Jindrich Dinga 2006-09-06 08:32:50 UTC
Reassigning to jrojcek.
Comment 15 t_h 2009-08-04 14:13:11 UTC
Hyperlinks can now have arbitrary color so it could be confusing to change their colors to reflect activated/visited
states. IMHO wontfix.