NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #41

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Issue #41 - November 12, 2001 
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The good news is that the bug count was decreased this week to 605! 
The bad news is I cannot announce Beta4, because several serious 
regressions were found. Work on stabilization has started so 
stay tuned; the Beta4 will be announced in following days. 

 Sub: [nbdev] Beta4-build report. 
 URL: <at the moment the link to archive is unknown due to issue 17517>
 Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:10:23 +0100 
  

Peter Hrebejk implemented a nice debugging tool: Memory Meter. Try 
it if you suspect that there are some memory leaks in NetBeans. 

 Sub: [nbdev] MemoryMeter added into NetBeans 
 URL:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=186003&listName=nbdev> 
  

Are you curious about differences and similarities between Eclipse 
and NetBeans? Can you tell us your experiences? 

  Sub: [nbdev] political question ... 
  URL:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=185827&listName=nbdev> 
  

Should the Runtime tab be visible by default in Explorer or not? 
Speak up if you use it, otherwise it might be turned off by default. 

 Sub: [nbui] Should there *be* a Runtime tab in Explorer? 
 URL:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=185982&listName=nbui> 
  

Michael Beauregard started work on his first contribution to 
NetBeans. Welcome on the board! Michael decided to improve the 
popup window of code completion. Feel free to give him your feedback. 

 Sub: [nbui] code completion enhancements 
 URL:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=188265&listName=nbui> 
  

Lukas Hasik started a discussion about the clearness of menu items for 
managing windows, which resulted in discussion about the status of 
drag'n'drop implementation in NetBeans: 

 Sub: [nbui] Window system menus (another UI issue) 
 URL:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=187697&listName=nbui> 

 Sub: [nbui] A better approach to docking? (was:Window system menus) 
 URL:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=187887&listName=nbui> 

  
A parallel discussion has started on nbusers about enhancing 
MDI mode in NetBeans. 

 Sub: [nbusers] Enhance MDI mode 
 URL:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=186428&listName=nbusers> 
  

Is it possible to attach a specific compiler type to a folder? No, 
it is not, but in NetBeans 4.0 we will address all these limitations. 
If you have similar problems join the discussion. 

  Sub: [nbusers] Setting specific compiler (debugger) type for folders
  URL: <at the moment the link to archive is unknown due to issue 17517> 
  Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:17:24 +0100 

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