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[ BUILD # : 201302062200 ] [ JDK VERSION : 1.7.0_09 ] I have just installed the latest Netbeans 7.3 (FCS acceptance build, "full" version) Using a maven java-ee project I wanted to add a new file. Rightlick on folder, new -> "other..." brought up the new file dialog. I could not scroll down the categorie to "other" in order to create a plain file, the scroll list always jumped up. I think this is a duplicate of http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219709 which is marked as "won't fix". Honestly I think this gives a really really bad impression of the Netbeans IDE, if a basic feature as creating a new file is so broken that even me as an experienced user had to read the old bug report for a workaround. Resizing the dialog mitigates the problem, yes. But this is not intuitive and there is no hint for the user what he is expected to do. I file this as P1 because a basic feature is not working properly - if you change the default dialog size for "new file" for the FCS build the priority can of course be reduced.
Dialogs are responsibility of platform/dialogs.
Created attachment 131151 [details] showing the last row accessible
Created attachment 131152 [details] Note how a larger dialog still displays the scroll bar but showing the last row ("Other") which is not accessible in the smaller dialog
I can reproduce it on my Solaris 11.1, Gnome 2.30.2
It's a bug in JDK. Next time you see this problem just resize the dialog window. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219709 ***
Perhaps the default size should be increased to mitigate a bad experience until the JDK receives a fix.
(In reply to comment #6) > Perhaps the default size should be increased to mitigate a bad experience until > the JDK receives a fix. There's not 'correct' default size. The tree size depends on look and feel, font size, font style, locale etc... In any case this is hardly a P1 issue.
everflux, could you please try to use the latest, publicly available JDK (7u13) ? BTW: according to the original report, it was already fixed in newer version of JDK
java -version java version "1.7.0_13" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_13-b20) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode) I am using it already - the NetCat bugreport form did not provide that version as an option.