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Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200806220002) Java: 1.6.0_06; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 10.0-b22 System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; MS932; ja_JP (nb) I'm running in the Japan locale, using a pseudo localized Netbeans with font size 16 option. 1. Create WebApp 2. Open NewFile -> Web -> Filter wizard 3. Go to the step 3 (Configure Filter Deployment) The wizard doesn't resize to show its text. See image. Assumption is that user does not need to manually resize most windows or dialogs to see all of the UI objects and information in them. I'm running in pseudo localized locale in which each message/label is sometimes longer than in English. To account for that in some locales, translations from English (and some other euro languages) could be shown with longer strings. Also I'm running at font size 16, which is viewed as a valid font size that might be used. Resizing issues are not just related to i18n; they might show to user in English locale if they run at larger font size. Often, these issues happen because the length of some label or message or size of entire window is hardcoded vs using layout managers or other techniques or api to have the windows or the objects in them, dynamically resize.
Created attachment 64195 [details] image
the same with 0629 build
Looking into it...
Can someone explain me how can I see this wizard? Do I have to install some other plugin? Where is the Filter Wizard?
In a web project, choose New file, and in "Web" category Filter is the 3rd on the list.
I spent some time on it, but it is not as simple as it sounds. I got into web.core's wizard package where the Bundle.properties defines name/value pairs for messages that are displayed in the panel TITLE_ddpanel_filter=Configure Filter Deployment LBL_dd_filter=<html>Register the Filter ....</html> However, I can't find the panel where these are used. Any ideas??
See class org.netbeans.modules.web.wizards.DeployDataPanel in web.core module. However, it won't be easy to fix it properly. (1) The panel is not editable in visual editor (no .form file) (2) It is not easy to limit width of JLabel in GraidBagLayout (see http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5135017&messageID=9494204 for details) Easy, but not nice fix, would be to increase preferred size of the panel...
> Easy, but not nice fix, would be to increase preferred size of the panel... Sounds possible, but this would have some disadvantages besides the advantages. This does not sounds like a P2, because: - the wizard can be used and successfully completed even without seeing this complete text; it is not required for understanding the functionality of the wizard - manually resizing is an obvious and easy workaround I suggest changing priority to P3, what do you think?
this one is different than most if not all resize kind of issues in that the problem is with the vertical view of characters, and actually affects english also; we have seen this sometimes with jtable or jtree but not before with other objects. in other multibyte languages, the context of what a character is if some vertical part of it is missing can be confusing even more than case for ascii. since its late in cycle, I'd suggest waiving it and fixing for next release. resizing is not a workaround for these kind of issues as per nb policy (not talking about bug criteria) though of course user can do it, although sometimes that does not even work if hardcoding has happened but the fact that some window can be made to shown all by resizing is not a real workaround officially. the other issues seen vertically were fixed by either not hardcoding, using window manager for handling resizing or for jtable/jtree getting the overall size of the text and adding a margin vs hardcoding. ken.frank@sun.com
Requesting a waiver for NetBeans 6.5. User impact: slightly decreased usability of the New Filter wizard, which is one of the less prominent Web tier components, for users running in non-English locales. Workarounds: 1. use the feature anyway, even if the explanatory text (which is not essential for understanding the feature) is not completely readable, or: 2. create the component as an ordinary class and then declare it in the deployment descriptor using the web.xml editor (textual or visual). Justification: the proper fix that would not cause other regressions is non-trivial, and given the number of other tasks required to meet the quality criteria, there is no time to fix this for 6.5.
The waiver is approved.
>> Easy, but not nice fix, would be to increase preferred size of the panel... > > Sounds possible, but this would have some disadvantages besides the advantages. What are the disadvantages of increasing the size of the panel? Is because the wizard dialog changes size? Obviously the preferred size will have to be dynamically determined to make sure that the text fits no matter what the font size.
>> - the wizard can be used and successfully completed even without seeing this complete text; it is not required for >> understanding the functionality of the wizard If the wizard can be successfully completed event without seeing the text, is the text required. Maybe the wizard should not include the instructions.
moving his issue to later
NetBeans.org Migration: changing resolution from LATER to WONTFIX