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

Jesse Glick <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:28:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Organization Sun Microsystems / NetBeans
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ken Tanaka wrote:
> [I] 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.

This message is probably obsolete already in NB 5.5, and definitely in 
NB 6. Please file a bug report about it. The new Options dialog lets you 
configure the browser right on the first page.

> Would it be hard to have an additional button that opens the correct 
> configuration window for the user?

In general, yes this is desirable, and feel free to file bug reports if 
you come across particular cases where the IDE fails to do this.

-J.

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