226882 – Trying to resize my netbeans main window to fill my 30' monitor, but it won get larger than about 1/3 of the available screen real estate. I'm gonna restart netbeans now and then it will work fine, but this is clearly a bug.

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Bug 226882 - Trying to resize my netbeans main window to fill my 30' monitor, but it won get larger than about 1/3 of the available screen real estate. I'm gonna restart netbeans now and then it will work fine, but this is clearly a bug.

Summary: Trying to resize my netbeans main window to fill my 30' monitor, but it won g...

Status:	RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	platform
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Window System (show other bugs)
Version:	7.3.1
Hardware:	Macintosh Mac OS X

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Assignee:	Stanislav Aubrecht

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Blocks:

Reported:	2013-03-01 09:13 UTC by la3lma
Modified:	2014-04-22 14:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Issue Type:	DEFECT
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IDE log (775.00 KB, text/plain) 2013-03-01 09:13 UTC, la3lma	Details
Screenshot from screen that can't be resized upwards (made larger) (761.19 KB, image/png) 2013-03-04 09:10 UTC, la3lma	Details
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Description la3lma 2013-03-01 09:13:28 UTC

Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.2 (Build 201207171143)
Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.8.2 running on x86_64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.7.0_12-ea
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 24.0-b26

Comment 1 la3lma 2013-03-01 09:13:36 UTC

Created attachment 132052 [details]
IDE log

Comment 2 Stanislav Aubrecht 2013-03-01 12:24:34 UTC

Please attach a screen shot and reopen, thanks.
Also try the latest JDK 1.7 update 15

Comment 3 la3lma 2013-03-04 09:10:09 UTC

Created attachment 132139 [details]
Screenshot from screen that can't be resized upwards (made larger)

This is the version of java I'm running (you probably know that).  I'll upgrade to 15 sometime this week and update this bug if it persists.

m6d-dhcp-11-49:driver rmz$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_12-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_12-ea-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.0-b26, mixed mode)

Comment 4 Stanislav Aubrecht 2013-03-04 09:22:53 UTC

So how about using JDK 1.7 update 15?

Comment 5 la3lma 2013-03-04 15:17:50 UTC

I've upgraded java now, the next chance of seing a crash is on wedensday when I'm back at the office  (and the 30'' monitor ;)

Comment 6 la3lma 2013-03-05 15:39:09 UTC

This problem persists also on the latest versjon of java 7

Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.2 (Build 201207171143)
Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.8.2 running on x86_64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.7.0_15
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 23.7-b01

Comment 7 Stanislav Aubrecht 2013-05-21 13:34:27 UTC

Sorry, but it's kind of hard to get 30" screen to reproduce the problem:)

Please check the resizing behavior with a plain Swing app, e.g. an empty JFrame created with NetBeans.

Also please attach full IDE log, not just the excerpt, thanks.

Comment 8 dylanv 2013-06-21 04:34:12 UTC

Can I just state that this problem still persists. currently its 'bug status' is set to 'RESOLVED INCOMPLETE'. Im going to go on a limb here and guess this means its kind of fixed. At the moment, even on the latest build of OSX 10.9, with the latest publicly available JVM, it still fails to resize when trying to drag the window, and as everyone has previously mentioned, this is on any side of the IDE. Please can we get some sort of milestone for this fix, because netbeans is completely useless on any monitor thats not 1440 x 900 as we can't resize it.

Comment 9 Stanislav Aubrecht 2013-06-21 08:07:53 UTC

Please provide the info requested in comment #7 then reopen, thanks.

Comment 10 mgbmgb 2014-04-08 21:25:19 UTC

I had this same issue occur to me yesterday using Netbeans 7.3 on a Mac running Mac OS X 10.7.5. It appeared to happen after I updated my Java 7 to the latest JDK (jdk1.7.0_51.jdk). Prior to this I was using jdk1.7.0_21.jdk and this issue never occurred. At any rate, I cannot resize the Netbeans 7.3 window, for source code or Design, beyond a certain point (roughly 2/3 the screen). And when I run a Java application from within Netbeans the application frame does the same thing. Performing a "Reset Windows" under Window does not work.

Comment 11 Stanislav Aubrecht 2014-04-11 08:05:51 UTC

(In reply to mgbmgb from comment #10)
> I had this same issue occur to me yesterday using Netbeans 7.3 on a Mac
> running Mac OS X 10.7.5. It appeared to happen after I updated my Java 7 to
> the latest JDK (jdk1.7.0_51.jdk). Prior to this I was using jdk1.7.0_21.jdk
> and this issue never occurred. At any rate, I cannot resize the Netbeans 7.3
> window, for source code or Design, beyond a certain point (roughly 2/3 the
> screen). And when I run a Java application from within Netbeans the
> application frame does the same thing. Performing a "Reset Windows" under
> Window does not work.

Is the problem reproducible with JDK 8? And if a plain Java Frame app behaves the same way then it's clearly a JDK bug. Please check JDK 8 and reopen if still reproducible, thanks.

Comment 12 mgbmgb 2014-04-22 14:08:39 UTC

I was able to reproduce the problem with Java 8 (1.8.0_05, x86_64:"Java SE 8"	/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_05.jdk/Contents/Home)) using Netbeans 8.0 and also reproduced it with the Java Frame app. In searching the web I found a documented JDK bug that says it was resolved in 8u20:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027778

Here's a snippet from the bug text:
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1. is this reproducible on 10.8 and/or 10.9? 
Yes. 
2. What hardware specifications? Any hardware? If only "older" HW, what vintage HW is required to fail 
At least systems based on intel GMA X3100, which are released pre middle 2009. 
I can't tell what versions of nvidia and radeon are affected. 
3. What is the risk? 
minimal. 

But if the team of netbeans doesn't object and the fix will seem risky to RE, it it is possible to defer a fix to 8u20
Mathias Axelsson added a comment - 2013-12-17 09:08
Release team: Rejecting this fix for 8 as it only happens on older HW (though with 10.8 and 10.9) so it's not a showstopper for 8. Deferring to 8u20
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I'm hoping that I don't have to upgrade my Mac system given that it is pre-2009. Maybe I should since it is 5 years old but I was not planning on that this year. I guess I'll have to wait and see when 8u20 is out.