Tips and FAQ

NetBeans - Editor Module

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Authors:

Miloslav Metelka, Roman Strobl, Sun Microsystems/NetBeans

Document History:

Available in CVS

For the general Frequently Asked Questions about NetBeans and its modules follow this link. On this page we would like to cover questions and problems specific to the Editor module and especially questions and problems which are related to Development builds and other temporary problems in development of the Editor module. This page is quite new thus not many solutions are here right now. But we hope to fill it up during the time.

Second part of this document are Tips, the section in which we would like to publish some tips, uncover some editing techniques which we hope speed up your coding, simply everything what might stay hidden to you.

FAQ

Question: I cannot type some characters. The Editor ignores them or a different characters get typed.
Answer: This sometimes happens on certain OS/locale configurations. It can be a problem of NetBeans or the JDK or both.
To distinguish between the JDK and NetBeans problem it's possible to run

    $jdk_location/bin/java -jar $jdk_location/demo/jfc/Notepad/Notepad.jar

and check whether the problem can be reproduced by that pure Swing application.
If the problem can be reproduced then an additional information about keyboard events being generated can be gathered.
We have prepared a simple application that dumps key events to console.
Please visit this link for more information about the testing application and how to use it.

Tips