Add a button to error popup windows to bring up Option settings

Ken Tanaka <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:45:08 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have a suggestion for the Error notification pop-up windows that 
recommend checking your IDE settings. There should be a button that says 
"Open IDE configuration window" or "Take me there".

I clicked on the "What's New" link in the "Welcome" tab that Netbeans 
shows on startup. I then received the pop-up window with the message:

  Cannot execute mozilla. Check that a valid external browser property 
is set. From the Tools menu,
  choose Options. Click Advanced Options button, expand IDE 
Configuration/Server and External Tool
  Settings node, then expand Web Browsers and choose valid browser.

        [OK]

Since this is a blocking dialog, I have to dismiss it before I'm allowed 
to do what it says. This is too much to remember easily and the text is 
not selectable in my gnome/linux interface, so I made a screen snapshot. 
Would it be hard to have an additional button that opens the correct 
configuration window for the user? For example, "[Open the Options 
window for me]"

-Ken