Change behaviour for opening forms-based Java files
Thomas Wolf <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface |
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Over in nbusers, I recently commented on the unintuitive behaviour of the IDE with respect to opening Java source files that have forms associated with them from the Explorer: Currently, when you double-click on such a Java file from the Explorer, it always opens the form designer. But this is not very intuitive - especially if the file was already opened but in "Source" view. Intuitively, double-clicking on the file in the Explorer should open the file in whatever view you had left it in previously. If not previously opened, the default view/editor should be configurable (as is the case in the Property editor.) If configuring the default is not feasible, the default should be "Source", since the average developer will be spending alot more time editing the source code than designing the layout via the designer. People in the nbusers mailing list seemed to concur but suggested I put it up for discussion in this forum. So I am. I already created an issue (issue #54961) for this, so if the overwhelming feedback here is that I'm wrong, I'll cancel the issue...but I'm sure you guys will agree - right? :-) Thanks for all feedback, tom