This Bugzilla instance is a read-only archive of historic NetBeans bug reports. To report a bug in NetBeans please follow the project's instructions for reporting issues.
Netbeans build: 200204300100 Windows 2000 Sun JDK 1.4.0 I work with a 1024x768 resolution and an MDI layout. When I try to work with the Log command in JavaCVS, I get a window giving details of the files. In this window, the tables contained, have an auto resize. This forces the table to be only the size that it is making seeing all the data difficult. To see all the data, I need to resize each colum and see the data. This is highly inconvenient.
can you please attach a screenshot? I'm not sure I understand the problem. please note that there's quite a lot of information that needs to fit on the screen real estate..
Created attachment 5660 [details] Screen shot for the log window (maximized in MDI)
Attaching the image. Please note that showing all the information is important and i agree with it. All I'm saying is there should be scroll bars to allow scrolling if there is too much information. This will allow viewing the information. Look at the "Lines" column in the image. It cannot be seen. And if I resize this, something else will go invisible.
in your particular csse (and generally as well) the most effective way that was designed in order to help the user is the splitter between the two table.. by moving the splitter to the right, minimizing the symbolic names table, you should have enough space in the revisions table.. in case you're not interested in the symbolic names (as I am in my development) you can even run the log command with the - if not, then try moving the splitter that -N switch (no symbolic names) and the symbolic names table won't appear at all.. if the gained space is still not enough, try oving the splitter between the pseudo explorer (in log view component) and the single file info..
It might help in this particular case. But to get additional visibility, I will need to change the entire work area that affects other things. I think adding a scroll pane there would make things a lot simpler.
Filip, can you comment on this from the UI team perspective? My suggestion is to add the horizontal scroll bar to the table and also move the message column before the date+state+line columns since the message is actually the thing that people check most often..
I agree. The user should see as much "most important" information as possible without any additional effort. Let's move the Log Message column right after the Author column, add horizontal scrollbar and make all log table columns wide enough to show the whole cells by default.
done in main trunk.
Works fine in development build #200206060815 of NetBeans 3.4.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.