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With the growing number of extensions to the basic NetBeans IDE, it's getting pritty crowded in the code editor: it's no longer unusual for 2 or 3 modules to highlight a line to point something out. What I propose is the following: 1. make the sidebar (the one displaying the line numbers and annotation marks) arbitrarily wide or just wider, so it can display more than one symbol 2. make the bar highlighting the line multicolor: if a yellow and red annotation have to be displayed, display the top of the bar in red and the bottom in yellow. The same would work for three colors. You could also color the line horizontally, but I don't think that would be as easy to read.
Ooops, forgot to say it's an enhancement. :)
The annotation can by cycled by clicking on black down arrow just next to the annotation symbol (displayed only if there are more annotations on a single line). In Tools-> Options -> Advanced Options -> Editing -> Annotations Types you can turn on 'Draw glyph on background' which will cause drawing all annotation symbols (one in sidebar, others in the editor area).
That's better, didn't know about that. :) What do you think about the coloring ideas?
*** Issue 107251 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
It looks like widening the gutter to fit all annotations is preferred solution (see #107251). IMO the coloring would not add much value over the error stripe, which already shows a little coloured bar for every annotation. It would not be a bad idea for the error stripe to merge colors if there are multiple annotations in the same place in a file. If you think it's worth of trying please file it as a separate issue.
*** Issue 73055 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev
> In Tools-> Options -> Advanced Options -> Editing -> Annotations Types you can > turn on 'Draw glyph on background' which will cause drawing all annotation > symbols (one in sidebar, others in the editor area). This is no longer possible, as Advanced Options don't exist any more. :-(
*** Bug 152223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue doesn't get lost.
Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue doesn't get lost. This time the target milestone is really set.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss
Still valid in 8.2 dev Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201607100002)
*** Bug 195007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***