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Bug 46525

Summary:	Library names should be able to contain spaces
Product:	projects	Reporter:	_ gtzabari <gtzabari>
Component:	Libraries	Assignee:	Tomas Zezula <tzezula>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jrojcek
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	41535

Description _ gtzabari 2004-07-24 18:55:27 UTC

dev build 200407151800

   When I try adding a new library using the
Library Manager and I have a space in the library
name, Netbeans complains my library name contains
invalid characters. But look at the default
libraries that ship with Netbeans, most of them
contain spaces in their name. I expect to be able
to use spaces in the library names too.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2004-08-02 14:13:54 UTC

AFAIK this is as designed; library names cannot contain ' '.

Libs shipped with the IDE may have display names distinct from the
code name, which can contain any character. There is no plan to have
such a facility for user-created libraries. More likely to confuse and
distract a user than be helpful, I think.

UI spec silent on the issue:

http://projects.netbeans.org/buildsys/j2se-project-ui-spec.html#Dialog_New_Library

Comment 2 Marian Mirilovic 2005-07-12 10:01:50 UTC

closed