Re: Change behaviour for opening forms-based Java files

Thomas Wolf wrote:
> 
> 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? :-)

If it's already open with the Editor showing, yes, I think it should 
just switch to that tab and not switch to the designer.

If it's not already open, I'm afraid that new users would never figure 
out that there even is a form designer in there.

-Tim