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Bug 23917 - No context-sensitive help for New Watch and New Breakpoint dialogs
Summary: No context-sensitive help for New Watch and New Breakpoint dialogs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: usersguide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Talley Mulligan
URL:
Keywords: REGRESSION, UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-05-23 16:29 UTC by iformanek
Modified: 2005-03-02 18:01 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description iformanek 2002-05-23 16:29:33 UTC 
New Breakpoint dialog has Help button, whereas New Watch 
does not
Comment 1 Jan Jancura 2002-05-23 17:00:58 UTC 
fixed in main trunk
but we need to add some help for "debug.add.watch" tag.
Comment 2 Patrick Keegan 2002-07-03 19:48:43 UTC 
Gail, do you have any comments on the current status of this bug? It looks like it can be closed as soon 
as debug.add.watch is mapped to something.
Comment 3 Patrick Keegan 2002-07-03 20:08:10 UTC 
reassigning  back to docs
Comment 4 Gail Chappell 2002-07-09 19:33:32 UTC 
I've connected a help page to the Help button in the New Watch dialog
box.  The help should show up in the 7/11 NetBeans build.

There continues to be an inconsistent presence of the Help button
so I am reassigning the bug to the debugger team.  The Help button
appears in the New Watch dialog box when I open it by using
Debug -> New Watch, Ctrl-Shift-F7, or the toolbar button.
However, the Help button does not appear on the New Watch dialog 
box when I open it by using the contextual menu in the Source 
Editor.
Comment 5 Jan Jancura 2002-07-09 19:47:35 UTC 
this dialog is provided by editor module.
can you (editor) add help button there with "debug.add.watch" tag?
Comment 6 Miloslav Metelka 2002-07-09 20:52:30 UTC 
I have replaced the current add-watch editor action by the debugger's
AddWatchAction from openide in the editor's popup menu so now there is
just one dialog from the AddWatchAction with the proper Help button.

Checking in src/org/netbeans/modules/editor/java/JavaKit.java;
/cvs/editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/editor/java/JavaKit.java,v  <-- 
JavaKit.java
new revision: 1.44; previous revision: 1.43
done
Processing log script arguments...
More commits to come...
Checking in src/org/netbeans/modules/editor/resources/layer.xml;
/cvs/editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/editor/resources/layer.xml,v  <--
 layer.xml
new revision: 1.29; previous revision: 1.28
done
Comment 7 Roman Strobl 2005-02-04 15:21:31 UTC 
The help buttons in both dialogs got lost since 3.4. Can we put them
back? We have help sections for these actions. Thanks.
Comment 8 Patrick Keegan 2005-02-04 15:39:12 UTC 
There is no help written specifically for the dialogs, so no help IDs
should be assigned.

Context-sensitive help has been consciously de-emphasized as we have
focused our efforts more toward tutorials, etc.  This isn't to say
that we won't eventually add it back. But help IDs should not be
assigned until appropriate help has been written.
Comment 9 John Jullion-ceccarelli 2005-03-02 18:01:27 UTC 
Help buttons have been removed from these dialogs. Closing issue.