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When a *.css file is opened, the visual designer eats up large portion of editor area, and cannot be docked, or even made smaller -- it looks like there is a minimal size set. There is surely a large number of users, who won't use visual designer and prefer to type everything on thir own. Inability to minimize/dosck the visual designer would hinder their developement. I beleive that the visual editor should be designed in a similar way as ie. Palette. --- NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 070418) 1.6.0_01; Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.6.0_01-b04 Linux version 2.6.12-1.1390_FC4smp running on i386 en_US (nb); UTF-8
I support this idea. I plan to do the same for the CSS preview panel (which was originally a part of the same component as the visual style builder.
Fixed by moving the StyleBuilder and Preview windows out from the editor pane to separate windows. Now user can easily close them or move to more appropriate locations. For more details see commit log in issue #89437.
Verified. --- Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 070612) Java: 1.6.0_02-ea; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_02-ea-b02 System: Linux version 2.6.12-1.1390_FC4smp running on i386; UTF-8; en_US (nb) Userdir: /space/testUser0