Run and debug buttons need to be split/combo buttons so run configurations can quickly be run or debugged.

Wade Chandler <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Message-ID <[email protected]>
See:
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=105664

for all the details. See comments I have added recently.  This is based on real world usage having been working in NetCat and using NB 6.0 dailies for projects. It is a real pain to have to make so many actions just to switch configurations and run them when you have to do it for multiple classes and/or options within the context of a single project. I also would like for everyone to review any of the later UIs. Some of the popular ones would be Yahoo Mail (the new beta..I'm using now), Firefox, NetBeans (other buttons besides just the run button), and OpenOffice. From the context of having the default configuration setting drop down and the split/combo button for the run action, these are two separate things. The drop down sets the one for the default and run lets us jump right to one without having to move the mouse around for two actions. The fact it is a split button makes the action the user expects to take obvious.

Wade