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[200604101800] I was developing against my custom platform in NetBeans 5.0. Today I switched to dev build. My platform has not been registered yet. My module suite shows me dependency problem in module suite customizer. I wanted to register it in platform manager. But is was not possible with the same name because the name has been already marked with red color.
I do not understand where is the problem. Seems OK to me that name is supposed to be unique. (also the platform ID is generated from the platform name).
I found where is the problem. Platform with the same build number has been already registered to platform manager. The already registered plaform was deleted. Therefore the platform was marked by red color. I tried to register again the platform with the same build number but from other folder.
1) In the first step when you select the equal platform you got a warning: "The Platform Name is already in use. Please choose a different name in the next step." 2) In the second step you got an error message: The Platform Name is already in use. Please choose a different name. Seems to be clear enough - maybe it's even clever ;), wizard warns you ahead. Just use a different name if you have the reason to keep an old invalid platform (probably you are planning to fix it) or just delete the invalid one. If I misunderstood you, reopen. Thanks.
>1) In the first step when you select the equal platform you got a warning: > >"The Platform Name is already in use. Please choose a different name in the next >step." The folder platform is deleted from local filesystem (externally). It is invalid. User expects thar he can replace it with new platform.
The user can easily do so. Did you see the message: "The Platform Name is already in use. Please choose a different name." It is not saying: "You cannot use this platform, please choose another one". It says choose another name. e.g. use "(2)" as a suffix. And again you have to do this only in case you want for whatever reason to keep the invalid one. Other problem is that the user is not able to fix the invalid platform from the GUI if we do not count above as the way to do so. Please file RFE if you do not like the above. But it should be solved by 61227 and similar ones.
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