RE: nb 4.1 feature request

It was just me or I can't see the suggest completion on NetBeans ex : When I
type "new JFrame(" it show a dialog suggest all possible constructor for
JFrame such as JFrame(String name) etc .... 


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Stange [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:20 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: nb 4.1 feature request

Hello all,

I've been using the 4.1 Q build.  Works great.   I have 2 requests:

1)  it would be great if somehow one could color the editor tabs in some 
way that correlated with the project.  So, when I'm editing File F from  
Release X of my project, all the tabs might have a red underline on the 
file name, while File F from Release Y would have a blue underline.  Of 
course, Release X is in Netbeans project X and Release Y is in project Y.

The underline color could default to "invisible" and a user could set 
the color in the project properties.

There are some obvious extensions to this as well.  For example, in the 
projects and files explorers, the left margin of the screen could have 
this color in it.  For large projects, it's way too see only a list of 
file names and not the project context.  Cut/Copy/Paste are tricky to 
use when one can't easily see from where one is cutting, or to where one 
is pasting, etc.

Right now, it's way too easy to clobber a file from the wrong project as 
the only hint in the UI for the project name is in the window title bar.


2)  I still find the dialogs open way too slow.  When doing a search I 
find I can hit ^F or Shift-Alt-O and start typing before the dialog is 
up, causing the keystrokes to go into the editor window.  I'm using the 
b17 Mustang build on Linux, 3.06 Ghz P4 with fast frame buffers, etc.

Thanks!

-- Alan