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[pilsen](010817) There is a wrong mapping of Help in Property Editor : form position : - open form (Frame) - select top-component - in Component Inspector select tab Code Generation - select form position or form size and invoke Property Editor "..." - there push "Help" - > help with title "Finding Information About the IDE" will be shown instead "Modifying Code Generation for a Form"
reassigned
Per the email below from Tomas Pavek, I'm reassigning this to the owner of Form Editor. It looks like two things should be done: * Since specific help can't be assigned to these property editors, we should remove the Help button from the general dimensions property editor. * Tooltips need to be updated for the form generation properties. Also, the properties need to use headline caps. (For example, the property "form size" should be "Form Size".) I looked at the resource bundle and would have made these updates myself, but I can't tell in src/org/netbeans/modules/form/Bundle.properties what is the property and what is the tooltip. It looks like the same message string is being used for both? I think I need to let the engineers handle this one. Here are my suggested tooltips: Form Position Sets the screen position where the form opens. Form Size Sets the initial size of the form. Form Size Policy Sets the policy for the generation of resize code. Generate Center If True, generates code that positions the form at the center of the screen. Generate Position If True, generates code that positions the form as specified by the Form Position property. Generate Size If True, generates code that sets the size of the form as specified by the Form Size property. Menu Bar If your form has multiple menu bars, sets the menu bar to be displayed. >Hi Brenda, > >I'm afraid there's no way how to fix this. The MapID cannot be >set here >because of using a *general* property editor for Dimension objects. >So you can have a help describing how to enter dimensions, >but there's >no mechanism how to attach a specific MapID for it (according to what >the dimension is good for). This is possible only for specific >(one-purpose) >property editor classes (the MapID is defined in the source >statically). > >I think it should be enough to have understandable tooltips for all >the >form "Code Generation" properties, which is however not the current >state... >I guess you can close the bug as WONTFIX, or probably better reassign >it to >Form Editor with the note about the tooltips (would be nice if you >suggested >some...). > > - Tomas
Tooltips and property names done.
verified in [nb_dev](20011123)
I am reopening this because we still need to get the Help button off of the dimensions property editor. Since no real valuable help can be displayed (see my Nov 21 comments), the Help button should be removed. Should the bug be reassigned for this? The tooltips and fixes to property names look great. Thanks!
Sorry, I forgot... SO I've removed help map ID from DimensionCustomEditor, InsetsCustomEditor, PointCustomEditor and RectangleCustomEditor (in branch release33, it's too late for release330 now) which should hide the Help button. I guess you should remove mappings from help map file in usersguide module.
verified in [nb_release33](200112060331) Help button was removed from DimensionCustomEditor, InsetsCustomEditor, PointCustomEditor and RectangleCustomEditor.
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.