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When typing into the editor if often find the focus lost. One situation where this ALWAYS happens on my system is this: 1) Start Tomcat internal server. 2) Edit some JSP-file and save it. 3) If somebody on my network asks this JSP-file through the Tomcat webserver, it starts compiling the JSPfile (as it should), but my focus on the editor is lost. So my keystrokes go to dev/null. :-( This may not be a problem for people who can type blind (is this also an english experssion?) but I cannot and look at my keyboard a lot while typing. (I suspect this behaviour has noting to do with Tomcat, but with starting a compile.)
Hi. I can conform this bug. I lost focus in editor, text fields. When I'm in editor and some dialog window appears I lost focus in editor. Reproduce: 1) Go to the editor. 2) Type Ctrl-O to show "Open Type dialog" and then close it (by Esc even by Close window button). Now I cannot type to editor When I open some dialog window and switch to another application (only by Alt-Tab) I lost focus in dialog text fields. Reproduce: 1) Open services and click to add new database driver. 2) Switch to another application with Alt-Tab. When I return back to the netbeans I cannot type to dialog window text fields. It happens very very often to me and it makes this otherwise great IDE useless for me. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. Java version: java version "1.6.0_03" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode, sharing) It happens in NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 and Netbeans NetBeans IDE 6.0 Beta 1. I'm not sure if it is NetBeans issue because similar thing happened to me in iReport, but there I'm not using keyboard so often.
I'm pretty sure that some of the problems lie in between your OS and JDK. The tomcat-start-jsp-compile issue however sounds like something in Netbeans. Willow, could you please check that the focus in this case is not transferred to the output window? Thanks
Hi guys, I am sorry to say, but that report of mine was from april 2003. Since then I stopped working with Java in favor of PHP, even though I made a lot more $ with Java, I just fell in love with PHP. And what is more, my old machine where I worked on (Redhat8) is no more alive. Total HD disaster, and being incredible stupid, I had no recent backups. (Won't happen to me in the future.) So I am not in the situation to check anything for you. Sorry about that. :-/ Good luck fixing the issue! Regards, Erwin Moller
Hi Erwin, thanks for your reply. We are sorry for catching up with you on this so late. Good luck with PHP. Should you ever think about coming back to java, please make sure you check new Netbeans 6 out. It's a WAY better than the old 3.4. Thanks, Vita
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev
Although the problems described here may be unrelated, I'm marking this as a duplicate of issue #119617 - Cursor lost in editor. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 119617 ***