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As more and more plug-ins installed, the "Tools" menu in the IDE gets longer and longer, finally, its displays items beyond the bottom of the screen and cannot be selected by mouse. It can be selected by keyboard but its is very difficult to know which is the currently highlighted item.
JDK version do you use? Screenshot ? And what about another menus, Editor menu ?
Created attachment 7945 [details] Note the "Update Center" item is displayed beyond the bottom of the screen
JDK: 1.4.1_01 It also happens to other menus! For a test, I create my own menu with the "Tools->Options" dialog and use the "Paste Link" to create menu items copied from "IDE Configuration+Look and Free+Actions".
Necessary to create little Swing app with long menu, to see whether it is our of jdk problem.
reassigne to Marek, new owner of ui subcomponents
It is behaviour of Swing. We cannot provide general solution. Look at http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4518295.html
I attach simple test - simple modification of MenuLookDemo.java from Java Tutorial.
Created attachment 8495 [details] Test App
Yes, it's swing bug - verifying, closing.
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