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My system uses dual monitors with different resolutions. I normally run the IDE on the monitor considered the "secondary monitor" by XP. When I start the NetBeans IDE it automatically goes to the second monitor as expected, however, scrolling by using the scrollbar destroys the image in the windows (forcing the window to scroll using the cursors works fine). If I set both monitors to the same resolution prior to starting NetBeans, the problem does not present itself. Additionnally, if the problem is present, all I have to do is change the resolution on the XP "secondary monitor". It seems the information is then propagated to the IDE and the scrolling problem vanishes. My guess is that the IDE gets the resolution information used by the scrollbar from the "primary monitor" when it is first initializes and uses this erroneous data there after unless a resolution change is passed on. Hope this helps. I really like the IDE. Alain Gosselin
Reassigning to core, please evaluate.
Hello, cou you (reporter) describe exact steps to reproduce the problem (how I run netbeans on second monitor?) and provide image of the problem? Thanks. Also, could you try another java app, like SwingSet2 demo from JDK? Error may not be specific only to netbeans. Also please tell me your JDK version and NetBeans version/build number you use, thanks.
I have verified that the SwingSet2 demo has the same problem. This is a pretty nasty bug. I don't want to switch IDE's but I will have to if I can't find a better workaround. Please don't close this until somebody files a bug with the JDK. BTW, I am using JVM 1.5.0._06.
It looks like this has already been reported and fixed in Mustang. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6331073 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5086872 Possible workarounds are: * Use the larger screen as the primary (can't be done on my laptop) * Set the resolution on the secondary screen to <= primary * Use the Mustang beta
Currently I use NB 5.5, JDK & JRE 1.6.0 and I still have the same issues too. When using the scrollbars only the java code in the main editor window gets garbled. The linbe numbers side bar and all the rest of the IDE updates correctly. The problem sometimes occurs after some hours of working. I use a dual display, NB on my "secondary" monitor and both monitors have a different resolution (the secondary has the highest resolution). As a workaround I currently resize the NB window on my secondary window such that only a few pixels of the window also appear on my primary monitor. When I do that the problem disappears.
I've got additional report from user, quoting: ---- I encounter this bug, too. http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73315 The base bug has been fixed, but it is still reproducible. I have no account to login and update the status. Could you please update the status of this bug? I know a workaround is that, moving the NetBeans' window, make part of the window appear in the primary monitor, then the scroll bar will works well. Please refer to the attachment. Best Regards! Vincent Yang ---
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev
All these problems appears with other java apps (like SwingSet demo) too and we unfortunately can do nothing with them on NetBeans side.