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Steps to reproduce: - create any sample project - open source file in the editor - call New Breakpoint from the Run menu - choose Function breakpoint type - change type to Line breakpoint Result: The dialog window width changes. It looks ridiculous so these dialogs are similar.
Try doing the same thing with Java breakpoints. The same resizing happens then. As far as I know, no customers have had issue with the size changes.
In fact not. Please notice that it happens only in IDE + CND (without Java and Java Debugger). If Java and Java Debugger also installed then only height of the dialog is changed (that's OK so that dialog contains different number of fields for different types) but width remains the same.
I tried this on Windows (both Java and C/C++) and on Solaris (Java only). On Windows only the height changed. If I switched from Java to C/C++ there was a minor width change. But changing from C/C++ Line to C/C++ Function only changed height. On Solaris, both height and width changed when changing Java types (Class, Exception, Method, Thread, and Field).
Please pay your attention that I'm not talking about switching between Java and C++. I mean completely different installations of the product. As you know for now a user can choose different types of installation from netbeans site http://bits.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.0/nightly/latest/ so you can install only Base IDE with C/C++ and without Java. And the issue regards exactly this variant. The dialog width changes terrifically on Linux and Solaris. I suspect that there is something bad with setting of the window size. It looks that the size (width) depends on dialog fields content.
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