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I just downloaded and installed Netbeans 3.3 Beta1 from the Win32 .exe installer. I loaded netbeans, with ALL DEFAULT settings, immediately went to "Projects->New" and gave the project a name then hit "enter". As soon as the status bar said "Project Blahblah Opened" I was in my editing tab, and the explorer window that NORMALLY has the Filesystem, Javadoc, runtime, etc. now ONLY has a maximized view of the properties tab. There are NO OTHER tabs in the Explorer view to choose from. However if I hit the "Gui Editing" tab, the explorer in this window is what I would have expected to find in the "Editing" Tab. This explorer view has a tab for "Filesystem", "Project blahblah" and "Javadoc". Is it possible that when a new project is opened for the first time (Created) the Explorer views are mixed up and added to the wrong workspace tab? For example, the Explorer that was suppose to be added to GUI editing was added to Editing tab and visa versa?
System: Windows XP JDK 1.4 Beta 2
NOTE: It seems after starting Netbeans the 2nd time, the problem has alleviated itself as NOW the explorer window exists at it should under the "Editing" tab. The problem seems to lie with the initialization of the UI when a new project is created, but is remedied when the user quits and restarts.
This is a problem of Window System rather then Projects module (reassigning to core/Window System). It seems to me that it is related to JDK 1.4 as I never saw it on my JDK 1.3.1 (keyword JDK_1.4). Anyway, Window System guys had some troubles with explorer tabs and some of them probably persist for JDK 1.4. I believe there is a better workaround than restarting IDE, just reinvoke explorer from the menu View | Explorer.
subcomponent -> Window System
lowered prio to P3, it's JDK 1.4 only
Confirmed on my Solaris box too. Why this is P3? IMHO if this is on jdk1.4 and we declared full support for 1.4 this should be seen in the same way as another issues, because it points to the serious problem in window system. I think, this issue should be P2.
Agreed. I originally filed this as a P2 since it breaks the usability of the IDE on the initial load.
We know from the past that something in window system can work on jdk 1.3. only because some side efect. Unless this is fully evaluated from the developers it sounds like serious problem. Note, closing the Explorer and reopening through View|Explorer doesn't help. You have to switch to GUI Editing then back to Editing the open the Explorer - but it will contain only two tabs Filesystem and Javadoc.
Increasing to P2. It is a regression. I checked the 20011019 build and there it worked. Seems like this was caused by the fix of issue #16511.
Assigned to me.
Started.
Removed jdk_1.4 keyword. It's not problem related to 1.4, it just accidentally occures promarily on jdk 1.4
Fixed in [main-trunk]. Fix: core/../core/NbNodeOperation.java [1.73] /core/windows/ModeImpl.java [1.108].
Beta-2 stopper, increasing priority to P1 in order to get it into the branch.
Merged into [release33_beta2] branch. Change: core/../core/NbNodeOperation.java [1.72.4.1] /windows/ModeImpl.java [1.107.4.1]
verified in 200111260100
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.