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Bug 112827 - NetBeans launched without dock icon specified when running module project
Summary: NetBeans launched without dock icon specified when running module project
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: apisupport
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Harness (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: t_h
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Reported: 2007-08-15 04:12 UTC by _ tboudreau
Modified: 2008-02-12 10:34 UTC (History)
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Description _ tboudreau 2007-08-15 04:12:23 UTC 
When you run a module project, the -Xdock... argument to the VM is not supplied.

The reason this is a problem is that in JDK 5 on mac, if it is not specified, the application does not appear in the command-tab (like ctrl-tab on windows) list 
of open applications, so there is no way to switch back to the testing copy of NetBeans with the keyboard - you have to either find it as a little gray java icon 
in the dock and click it, or minimize everything on your desktop until you find the NetBeans window.  Very annoying.  Not sure whether it's a thing for 
apisupport or nbbuild.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2007-08-15 17:35:03 UTC 
Patches welcome. I don't know what -Xdock is. Mac-specific?
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2007-11-05 16:53:48 UTC 
I don't know what this is about, cannot work on it.
Comment 3 t_h 2008-02-06 08:54:48 UTC 
We have tested stand alone module/module suite from IDE as well as externally and in both cases the application appeared
in the command-tab. It was tested on Leopard.

Closing as works for me. Please reopen with more details how to reproduce problem.