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Bug 36767 - [w2k] Drop down menu for select document in editor is hardly usable
Summary: [w2k] Drop down menu for select document in editor is hardly usable
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: _ tboudreau
URL:
Keywords: L&F
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-10-22 16:27 UTC by Tomas Pavek
Modified: 2008-12-22 22:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Tomas Pavek 2003-10-22 16:27:21 UTC
On Win 2000, Classic L&F, JDK1.4.2_01.
I don't know, maybe this is just not finished yet,
but it is annoying. The menu (list of opened
documents) shown after clicking the 'v' button
provides no selection feedback when moving mouse
over it and cannot be used by keyboard. BTW what
is the key shortcut to invoke it? Also if the
editor mode is not selected (active) at the
momnent of clicking the 'v' button, the list
disappears immediately, probably due to some
activation/focus transferring timing issue. Can be
demonstrated with form editor opened and e.g.
component inspector selected.
Comment 1 David Simonek 2003-10-24 11:12:03 UTC
1) Colors: yes, accepted, will fix.
2) Keyboard access: No key, designed only for mouse users, keyboard
users are expected to use Ctrl + ~ for switching between documents.
Jano can provide more detailed explanation.
3) Focus/actiovation: you're probably right - Marek, could you look at
this? (I'm not familiar with the code)
Comment 2 _ tboudreau 2003-11-15 22:23:34 UTC
This is mostly fixed, just did the last bits.
Comment 3 _ tboudreau 2003-11-15 22:23:50 UTC
FYI, I fixed the colors (no more black on blue) today, before I knew
this issue had been filed.

Also the change to use javax.swing.Popup may improve its behavior -
the window positioning code disagreed with Sawfish.

Highlighting and keyboard access work fine for me now - probably this
issue is fixed, as is the focus issue if you had Explorer focused and
then clicked the button in the editor container.

I just fixed a remaining glitch in the popup sometimes staying open,
so AFAIK this is working perfectly now.

Checking in
src/org/netbeans/core/windows/view/ui/tabcontrol/TabTable.java;
/cvs/core/windows/src/org/netbeans/core/windows/view/ui/tabcontrol/TabTable.java
,v  <--  TabTable.java
new revision: 1.5; previous revision: 1.4
Comment 4 Zdenek Konecny 2005-07-11 12:32:25 UTC
I've tested the problem when an other part of IDE is focused and this is working OK.