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Currently the undock feature will only undock into a JFrame. This needs to be able to undock into a JDialog or a Dialog as well. It is typical within applications such as Flash, Photoshop, and other applications including OpenOffice for tool/toolbox windows be floating dialogs. We need this in the Platform to help developers build better applications easier and faster. For an example in the way these differences work please see my wiki entry: http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NBDTRAD specifically the file: http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/attach/NBDTRAD/DialogVWindowTest.zip This is a simple example of a JDialog versus a JFrame when viewed over the application. Notice the JDialog stays on top of the frame instead of being hidden behind it like the JFrame (Window button). For examples of why this is handy please open OpenOffice and bring up the styles window. This is F12. This will help developers build on the NB Platform and make it better because of it. this is related to issue #42122: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=42122
Added Geertjan to this issue as he was interested in when I set it up.
There needs to also be a way for the default undock behavior to be set to undock into a dialog instead of a frame. This way docked toolbox windows will undock appropriately.
I have this set to P1 because it seriously needs to be considered prior to NB 6. This will be a great addition to the Platform to be able to bring on other developers of other types of applications. I have seen multiple emails in nbusers about this exact issue.