Hi all,
Netbeans, as of 12, has improved dramatically(refactoring is no longer
something I avoid like the plague, mostly) but like with all large
projects there is those smaller bugs that users can and do run into. I'd
like to share some of them in case there is any existing bug reports I'm
not aware of or maybe someone has some things I can try to better
reproduce things before I file to JIRA. I plan on doing it soon(TM).
Starting things off is the editor. It seems like it gets stuck waiting
to process something, resulting in all sorts of issues:
-If a project is running(JavaFX app, for example) code completion and
prompting will sometimes not work until the project has finished
running. For example, attempting to autocomplete an import statement
"org.foo.<whatever>" will result in no completion prompt.
-Sometimes code will be underlined as if it has an error but it does
not. The only way to fix this is by restarting the IDE[1]. Of not is
that this used to be absolutely terrible way back in Netbeans 8.2 but
since the performance improvements some time ago, it's rarely an issue.
Ignore the command line output, it's irrelevant.
-When launching Netbeans 12 and switched to the "FlatLaf Dark" theme,
variable names were not shaded purple until Maven finished indexing(or
was it scanning also? Not sure). Keywords such as "public", "private"
etc are all shaded gold as they should be.
That's all for the editor. The rest are kinda all over the place:
-When using GTK Look and Feel, comboboxes will have difference sizes
than one another[1][2]. This is not true for "FlatLaf Dark".
-IDE auto-completion for Java 9 modules "provides <service> with
<implementation>" is borked[3].
-When exporting IDE settings, Netbeans does not auto-generate a name for
the settings zip[4] nor does it force a user to set one or throw an
error if they did.
-JavaFX project generated by Netbeans 12 beta cannot be profiled due to
missing runtime dependencies[5]. You can start the project and then
attach-to-process just fine.
-There might be a few random refactoring bugs remaining. I remember
renaming a class and Netbeans 12 beta(3, I think) decided to randomly
not change the name on a few classes in the import statements. Happened
awhile ago and I don't think there was an exception this time, sorry.
Again, It's way better than it used to be.
Again, if bug reports don't already exist for these or If no one has
anything to add I'll start making bug reports soon(TM).
[1] https://imgur.com/a/5mkl16P
[2] https://imgur.com/a/ZIZzlgT
[3] https://imgur.com/a/seN9KKP
[4] https://imgur.com/a/IAh6XnD
[5] https://imgur.com/a/74ur4zc
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