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UML plugin: 1.4.2 Before installing UML plugin: Properties window is visible only when designing GUI components, it is hidden when editing source code (this is good behaviour). After installing UML plugin: Properties window is always visible - when designing GUI, when editing source code, when all tabs are closed - always. If you try to close it when editing source code, it will reappear again after switching to design mode and back. *Extremely* annoying. Either I have to disable UML plugin or I have to sacrifice a large part of editing area for a useless window. See attached bug demonstration.
Created attachment 76415 [details] bug demonstration
I can confirm this always-visible behavior, although I didn't connect its onset to the installation of the UML plugin until I read this bug report. As soon as I uninstalled the plugin and restarted Netbeans, the Properties window went back to only being visible in Design Mode. Fortunately, I won't need to design anything in UML in the near future so uninstalling the plugin is no big loss. For those who want to keep it, however, this issue is absolutely maddening.
this one behavour is expected because you can model without design view at all, you can create model with project tree, and modify most properties with properties tab here. as for source code it have no much sense to change any properties from project tree.
you can even generate code for example. go to source code and see oooh, I made it public, without opening design view go and change visibility in project tree with opened properties and regenerate the code. you can't do the same with gui designer as I undestand. it's unclear for me what should be a good behavior in this case. yet something may be improved.
I haven't understood your mindflow a bit. Or more probably you haven't understood this bug a bit. See the video once more! The bug reports that installing UML plugin *changes Properties Window behaviour*! I don't say what is good and what is wrong, but I say what is expected: Don't change Properties Window behaviour when I'm not editing any UML. Once more: Without UML plugin: Properties Window is intelligent - visible in Design mode, hidden in Source mode With UML plugin: Properties Window always visible Expected: When editing Java code (no correlation with UML) the behaviour should be the same with and without UML plugin. By the way, when you add "INCOMPLETE" keyword, maybe you could specify why it is incomplete and what do expect from me.
also I can't reproduce reappearing. if I close properties in code view, it doesn't appear after switching to design view and back to source, it appears only after switching to gui designer.
I have it confirmed and I have seen this behaviour for several years dating back to previous NB versions. I also tried in several installations. 1. Do you have UML plugin installed? 2. Try to create some UML project and edit some diagram. After that try to switch to java source. Maybe I could have some effect.
ok, seems got it, after first time I have used uml, it seems swicthing between design mode and source mode in gui designer made properties always wisible and propertes reappear if closed in source mode.
and reappear even if all uml projects are closed and restarted.