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The properties editor under Mac OS X draws blank cells for both unset properties and set without value ones. In the attached image the Italian value of the property "<Application Preferences>.imageInterpolationPref.NAME" is not set (NB 5.5.1 draw it as gray cell), in NB 6 the cell is blank and is not distinguishable from a empty value set cell.
Created attachment 49368 [details] italian value of <Application Preferences>.imageInterpolationPref.NAME is not set and shoul be gray
I just verified it works (unset properties are distinguishable) on Windows (XP) and Linux (both Metal and GTK L&F).
But it is (still) not working on Mac OS X. Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200709261200) Java: 1.5.0_07; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_07-87 System: Mac OS X version 10.4.10 running on i386; MacRoman; en_US (nb) Userdir: /Users/crosati/.netbeans/dev
Yes, it does not work and I am investigating the cause just now. I just verified it is platform dependent (or rather L&F dependent) and added the appropriate keyword.
For a while before NB6.0rc2 it worked, but in NB6.0rc2 this problem is still there.
On MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) the problem is still here unless you add -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true on the netbeans.conf file.
table cell will be gray(blue on MacOSX) only if some key is not present in one locale, but present in another. If the key is not set (key is present but value is not set) then table cell is white. See picture.
Created attachment 76452 [details] screenshot
So it is working on MacOSX