Hi Michael, thank you for that info. I have tried NB 15 RC1 and it does indeed
seem to have fixed the issue I had described.
Unfortunately, I noticed that it has changed alignments and sizes on many of my
form designs, especially outermost component sizes that now render as different
sizes when embedded in other components - seems like previous anchoring of
JPanels to borders has been lost. Some dialogs are rendered differently too,
e.g. a smaller size dialog if some component is initially invisible (whereas
previous dialog size defaulted to fit all components, even if invisible - maybe
it's me and I need to figure out how to redraw/repack a dialog to enlarge after
user makes a choice that makes a component visible). I realize this is only RC1
and I am greatly appreciative of what the NB dev team does, but I am a bit
nervous as to what my UI will look like after NB 14, especially since I have
been going through and adjusting all formatting and colors to work optimally
for FlatLAF per NB 14, but can't really do that now because of the frequent IDE
freezes so will need to get off NB 14 asap, which may be just as well because
of potential new alignment issues, etc so far in FlatLaf of 15 RC1. I guess I
will just postpone my UI refresh until at least after NB 15 is released. Oh
well, such is the way of progress!
Thank you again to you and NB dev team!
On Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 10:41:03 PM GMT+3, Michael Bien
<mbie...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20.07.22 21:20, Mike Hallan wrote:
I'm using NB 14 and I've tried running the IDE on JDK 11 and 18, both from
Adoptium, on Win 10.
I've found that very often the IDE will freeze if in the Swing Navigator, I
select a component eg.a JPanel, then right-click on it and move the mouse over
to the popup menu. Usually happens when I hover over a selection that has a
secondary menu such as Set Layout. The secondary menu will open and then the
IDE freezes. I'm then forced to kill NB from the Win Task Manager and restart.
Tends to not happen during the first few such actions but after several such
actions it will eventually freeze (within 5 -10 minutes of having restarted the
IDE)
My 2 questions: 1) Is this a known issue? I've had to kill/restart the IDE
around 20 times today. If not a known issue then I'll try to create a small
demo case for it.
yes. It is fixed in NB 15. You can test the first release candidate if you want
which was released today.
https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@netbeans.apache.org/msg11327.html
2) Is there any way I can avoid the component Navigator's popup for Set
Layout->Free Design/Border Layout such as a keyboard shortcut? I don't see this
setting in the Properties window.
as workaround you could also use a different look&feel until NB 15 is released.
best regards,
michael
Thanks!
