Thank you everyone for your comments. As someone working on Java in Education I believe that this is a serious/critical issue. NetBeans is/was, in my opinion, the best IDE in education. Many schools and students run Windows. Though retired I have written a book and am now working on a project, creating workshops. In both cases I used/use NetBeans. I can't say how much longer I can. Having my train of thought interrupted when I do Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V only to realize it did not work, again, is reaching the end of my patience. Then there are the times I lose code because I forgot to restore (Ctrl-Z) it after pasting it in my text.. I have more work lined up but I'm not sure that I can continue with NetBeans.
I fully appreciate that complaining about Open Source is frowned on. I should just download the code and find/fix the problem myself. What I do not have are the days and possibly weeks to understand how NetBeans interacts with the clipboard to identify the problem. Is there a time when a code base becomes so large that the potential for side effects from changes in other parts of the code base becomes near impossible to determine without a full-time staff. Heck, I came across Eclipse posting a paid job to deal with enhancements to Eclipse. Ken PS: Funny Eclipse story. I began teaching using first JDeveloper and then Eclipse. In the late 2000s Eclipse was problematic hence the eventual move to NetBeans in my courses. In most cases the students needed to shutdown Eclipse and restart it. I just played with the recent version of Eclipse and what did I find? It's a menu selection that restarts Eclipse. I guess if you can't fix it then give it a switch to turn it off and then on again in a single click. Doing this in NetBeans buys me between 10 and 30 minutes of working copy/paste. PPS: It never fails if I Cut. Is this not a significant clue? -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Fogel <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2023 6:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Windows 11 Issues - Copy/Paste Failure Hi, I have mentioned this before, but the situation is getting worse. More often than not, I must cut the text, paste the text into the external app such as Word, and then restore (Ctrl-Z) the cut text back into NetBeans. This week it started to require this just when I want to copy and paste text between tabs in NetBeans. My uninformed guess is an issue in how NetBeans responds to the Copy command, somehow losing its connection to the Windows clipboard that does not happen if Cut is used. But wait, there is more. It has become hit or miss to copy from another application into NetBeans. I can get a temporary reprieve by closing and then restarting NetBeans. I do have a question. How many people actively working on NetBeans do this in a Windows rather than Linux or MacOS operating system? I can say that this problem is unique to NetBeans in my Windows 11 environment and has not occurred in any other application or IDE that I have used. I don't think I can file a JIRA ticket because I cannot provide a repeatable example. Here is my environment from the About box: Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 18 Java: 17.0.7; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 17.0.7+7 Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 17.0.7+7 System: Windows 11 version 10.0 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_CA (nb) User directory: C:\Users\omni_\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\18 Cache directory: C:\Users\omni_\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\18 Ken Fogel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
