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In daily build 200608061800 you can detach/attach windows at will, which is _very_ nice. I'd like to file an RFE regarding the behaviour of detached windows: A floating Output window, when moved to a different monitor, will obscure whatever's on that monitor as long as netbeans has focus. If it was possible to specify that the detached window should be contained in a JFrame (like editor windows are), the focus handling would be more intuitive (from my point of view, that is).
workaround of sorts (under window xp, and possibly other platforms): - open netbeans - drag the Output window off the app to create a separate (JDialog) window - exit the app while taking care that the Output window remains in focus (click the [x] in the top right corner in the main window in WinXP) - open WindowManager.wswmgr from the .netbeans/config/Windows2Local directory - locate the <active-mode .../> tag, and note the content of the 'name' attribute - in .netbeans/config/Windows2Local/Modes, locate the corresponding .wsmode file - open it and change <kind type="something" /> to <kind type="editor" /> - save - cross fingers - open netbeans - with luck, find a detached toplevel editor JFrame containing the output window.
:-)
Of course, the _easy_ way would be to add "-J-Dnetbeans.winsys.allow.dock.anywhere=true" to the command line, drag the output window over to the editor area, and from there off the app. :)