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I've recently upgraded to NB 5.0 beta. I've noticed that instead of the build.xml file in the Files window having the fold out menu of all ant tasks as it did in NetBeans4.1, one has to now right click and run through two or more drop down menus to select a task to execute. Given that one of my most frequently used tasks is to Jar, and this is located at the bottom of a third menu, it is now much less convenient to run various ant tasks in my freeform project. Could the drop down menu be restored?
Please could you provide screenshot? I've just tried 4.1 and ant script has exactly the same menu there. Thanks.
Created attachment 26815 [details] Screenshot of Ant menu
This is a screenshot from NB 5.0. Note the many layers of windows I need to get through to get to some of my ant tasks. There is also no expandable node box to the left of the build.xml script in the file explorer. I'll append a screenshot from 4.1 below to show what I mean.
Created attachment 26828 [details] Ant 4.1 menu screenshot
Reassigning to "ant" for evaluation.
The beta's old already... Note that you do not need to use the Ant script to run targets from a freeform project - you can add them directly to the context menu of the project node in the Projects tab. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 63634 ***