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When the help system is opened from a modal dialog using the help button, it's not possible to close a pop-up window displayed for an item's definition. Example: - In Runtime Tab select 'XML Entity Catalogs' - invoke operation 'Mount catalog' on it - Press 'Help' in 'Mount Catalog' dialog - Go to 'see also' - 'XML Catalog formats' - Click on one of the 'example' links - the pop-up containing the example can only be closed after closing the dialog! I think I have seen this behaviour in another application, so this might be a JavaHelp rather than a Netbeans problem. Maybe there is a workaround!? Found on: 3.6 RC1, Win2K, Sun JDK 1.4.2
This is another artifact of the machinations done to keep the help window enabled in the presences of modal dialogs (so it doesn't become disabled). A workaround that should work is to open the help window beforehand and keep it open (but it will dance around the screen). We should do *something* about this for the next release, but without support in the JDK for having some help windows be exempt from dialog modality, it may be to simply delete all of the code involved and eliminate help from modal dialogs - the cure is worse than the disease in this case.
Reassigning to Marek, new owner of output window and help system
fixed for jdk 1.5.0_03/_04 and later
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 29448 ***
verified in NB4.1(200501241900)