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It would be handy for netbeans to support multiple windows, this will allow us to have the same instance of netbeans running in multiple monitors, as well as dragging tabs between them. Currently we have to run two separate instances of netbeans if we want to have multiple windows on different monitors.
there seems to be some scanning/lag issues with running multiple instances on the same folder, also...creating unnecessary overhead by scanning for tasks twice, for example
You can Undock any window from the inside the IDE.
Plus you can define a mode that causes its TopComponents to be undocked by default in your NetBeans Platform application.
Marian, this is not the intent of this bug, the submitter meant "monitor" support, not really "window" support. we realize (and appreciate) the ability to undock windows. the issue is that you cannot have an entire tab frame/page open, or get the other IDE elements with this undock. so, in order to have multiple tab frames (for example, if you have multiple rows of tabs in your tabframe open on each monitor), you have to run a separate netbeans instance for each monitor. also, you don't get all of the other IDE elements, like the project browser, the debug bar, the search result window, etc. so this isn't true multiple monitor support... for example, all of the devs here run 3 netbeans instances at all times, one for each monitor. this means copying snippets, options, etc, all have to be updated across all 3. if netbeans supported a file -> new window, that cloned the entire IDE (like eclipse, for example), just one copy of netbeans would need to be run for all developers in a multi-monitor environment. i know many netbeans devs that often point this out as the only shortcoming of netbeans, until i tell them about the multiple user settings dir trick. it would be a huge improvement (: