[NETBEANS-696] Seing Designer palette shows in non-designer view of same file

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 9.0
• Component/s: editor - Painting & Printing
• Labels: GUI designer

Environment

Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE Dev (Build incubator-netbeans-release-205-on-20180202)
Java: 10; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 10+46
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 10+46
System: Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_AU (nb)
User directory: Z:\tmp\.other\user\netbeans\v09.00-beta\FourAbs
Cache directory: Z:\tmp\.other\cache\netbeans\FourAbs-09

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: aplatypus
• Created: 18/Apr/18 23:42
• Updated: 04/May/18 02:00

Description

context

• Editing a Swing GUI form (call this Window #1)
• Also displaying the Java source code in second window (call this Window #2)
• Working with view side-by-side

expected / desirable

• Locate the Designer specific panels with the GUI designer
  • The Palette
  • The Properties display - which only relates to the GUI designer
• These should be in same frame

actual

• Refer to screenshot
• The GUI designer Palette is displayed in Window #2
  • And Not With the GUI form being worked on.
  • This makes using the Palette from the other window cumbersome.
• The GUI properties panel is displayed in Window #2
  • Again you need to change context to examine any properties
• Commonly different windows are actually on different monitors and locating palette and properties elsewhere doesn't make a lot of sense in the modern day.
• A second problem is that when you are editing the JAVA file the palette/properties area still shows!
  • With nothing to display - Just a grey large mass of wasted screen area

Two Views on Same file