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Textbox for Options/Misc/Ant/Properties is only two lines high. Was much better in NB6m10, where it was much taller, maybe 6-8 lines high. Consider making it resizable with a splitter. The tiny height makes it difficult to navigate when I have several properties set, such as multiple debug options I don't want to set in the build.xml file. (The build.xml is archived to source code management, and it is harder to navigate to the right part of a large build.xml than it is to this text box to make changes while debugging.)
Please bear in mind that the Properties field is only intended to be used as a last resort when there is no possibility of touching the build script, and for whatever reason you cannot use a wrapper that delegates to a "pristine" build script using <ant> with <property> subelements (freeform projects support this using the <script> element in project.xml). The recommended style is to place at the top of your build.xml (perhaps in an init target) e.g.: <property file="user.properties"/> and then put project-specific definitions in this file. These can easily be edited between builds. You can set your VCS to ignore user.properties so that user-specific or site-specific definitions can be kept there, and it will be skipped over quietly if missing. More info: http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansUserFAQ#section-NetBeansUserFAQ-Ant
Checking in AntCustomizer.form; /shared/data/ccvs/repository/ant/src/org/apache/tools/ant/module/AntCustomizer.form,v <-- AntCustomizer.form new revision: 1.6; previous revision: 1.5 done Checking in AntCustomizer.java; /shared/data/ccvs/repository/ant/src/org/apache/tools/ant/module/AntCustomizer.java,v <-- AntCustomizer.java new revision: 1.29; previous revision: 1.28 done