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Idea is to not show exception dialog directly anymore. Perhaps only in cases of InternalErrors or other really fatal errors. Instead, small "warning" icon should pop up in global status line, possibly waving a bit to attract attention. Click on warning icon will then bring exception dialog in current form. Pending: - duration of warning icon, after how much time or other constraint should icon vanish - tooltip over warning icon - for beta releases, current state is better
Current state: with -J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=false, exception messages simply printed in red in status line.
done cvs commit -m "50365 : showing a flashing icon on the main status bar instead of the exception ..." src\org\netbeans\core\resources\exception.gif src\org\netbeans\core\FlashingIcon.java windows\src\org\netbeans\core\windows\view\ui\MainWindow.java src\org\netbeans\core\NotifyException.java (in directory D:\projects\netbeans_stable_clean\core\) RCS file: /cvs/core/src/org/netbeans/core/resources/exception.gif,v done Checking in src/org/netbeans/core/resources/exception.gif; /cvs/core/src/org/netbeans/core/resources/exception.gif,v <-- exception.gif initial revision: 1.1 done Processing log script arguments... More commits to come... RCS file: /cvs/core/src/org/netbeans/core/FlashingIcon.java,v done Checking in src/org/netbeans/core/FlashingIcon.java; /cvs/core/src/org/netbeans/core/FlashingIcon.java,v <-- FlashingIcon.java initial revision: 1.1 done Checking in src/org/netbeans/core/NotifyException.java; /cvs/core/src/org/netbeans/core/NotifyException.java,v <-- NotifyException.java new revision: 1.62; previous revision: 1.61 done Processing log script arguments... More commits to come... Checking in windows/src/org/netbeans/core/windows/view/ui/MainWindow.java; /cvs/core/windows/src/org/netbeans/core/windows/view/ui/MainWindow.java,v <-- MainWindow.java new revision: 1.39; previous revision: 1.38 done
ui specification is available here: http://core.netbeans.org/proposals/exception_notification.html