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It seems there is some problem with the cacthing of the alt+tab event in windows. I am not sure if it occurs in older versions too. Repro steps. - Start netbeans - Open a file (i was doing ruby files) and start editing - Alt+Tab out to another file (i went to pdf reader to see the example code) - Alt+Tab back to the IDE - the focus is on the application menu (File), i would expect it to be on the last edited code window. [see url snapshot of same- http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=netbeans65alttabissuead0.png] I automatically start typing and end up hitting a succession of menu short keys. :) Is this because an extra "Alt" is being caught in the events or something?
I can reproduce on Win XP. 1) netbeans 2) alt+tab 3) other window 4) alt+tab 5) netbeans -> everything is ok 6) alt+tab 7) other window 8) alt+tab 5) netbeans -> "file" item in menu is selected! I agree that this may be very annoying. Please reassign further.
unfortunately, known JDK bug :( see the duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 73960 ***
:( is there a problem with the bug database query page or am i missing something? i tried search strings "Alt Tab" and "Alt+Tab" to make sure i didn't report a duplicate, yet ended up doing so. :(