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On a 4-core computer running Mandriva 2008, a new install of NetBeans 6 RC1 on a new computer: Two types of error: 1. The initial dialog (Tools->options or Tools->plugins) appears with a size that is too small, and seems to bear no relation to its previous size. However, it can be resized successfully. 2. The next dialog, however, (Tools->options->advanced or Tools->plugins->install) appears mostly grayed out. If the dialog is made large enough, a portion of the real dialog appears in the top left corner, and its size tracks any movements of the bottom or right borders of the dialog window. In this state the dialog is unusable. This does not happen every time. A screen snapshot has been saved, and will be supplied on request.
Created attachment 53088 [details] Screen shot of malformed dialog
It looks as JDK bug. Try to run the IDE on JDK1.6.0 what works better for me.
*** Issue 123297 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Need to find existing/file a newone bug in http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/
The problem still persists in the 6.0 release. There are two failure modes: 1. The dialog may come up all gray, with a wrong size. 2. Usually when a larger wrong size appears, the dialog may show some of the correct data, at the top left corner. The problem is dynamic. If a wrong dialog appears, it is usually possible to re-try, occasionally many time, until the dialog appears as intended. The dialog may cycle through both failure modes. To me, all that screams "race condition!!!". Just as an anecdote, I bought the quad-core specifically to find race conditions in my code. Within a day, I actually found and fixed one. The only one so far, but I think it was worth it. I'm sure you need a quad-core. You can quote me to your manager.
Both dialogs on quad-core machine (but on MacOS) works correctly. Just a question: what is your window manager? Or any patched AWT toolkit? I'm currently running on duo-core laptop with Ubuntu7.10 and works fine for me. Btw there is new one JDK6u3 at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/?intcmp=1281
Mandriva 2008, 64-bit, GNONE & KDE, JDK6u3. Perhaps I did not emphasize enough that it may happen in ANY dialog, even the lowly Ctrl-g (go to line number). Standard AWT, Swing, Sun libraries. Perhaps it's the 64 bit thing?
In recent month many problem with Beryl or Compiz window manager were reported agains Sun JDK. JDK6 updates since u3 contain several fixes specific for Compiz.
I now use JDK 6u10 (b08). It solved other problems, but the NB6 dialog problem is still around, though it seems to happen a bit less frequently. Still, the frequency is definitely not zero.
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev
At some point, after upgrading both KDE (Latest 3.5) and Java (6u10 about b10) the problem just disappeared. So Netbeans does not appear to be involved at all. I apologize for not having closed this issue sooner.
v/c