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Summary: | Project Manager Does Wierd Things With Help Window. | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | Chris Kutler <ckutler> |
Component: | Help System | Assignee: | mslama <mslama> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | pkeegan |
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 3.x | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows XP | ||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
Bug Depends on: | 29448 | ||
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Description
Chris Kutler
2003-11-12 23:44:22 UTC
There are a host of known issues with regard to the help window's behavior. More or less there are a large number of hacks to allow the help window to remain enabled when a modal dialog is opened - the help component must be reparented to a child dialog of any new modal dialog that is opened. As you can imagine, this has some fairly unfortunate consequences, and there are a number of related open issues (see issue 29448 and its dependency tree). The underlying problem is that AWT windows do not permit limited modality - what we'd really like to do is just specify that the help window should remain enabled even in the case of modal dialogs. But there's pretty much no way to work around it that doesn't create as many problems as they are now. For what its worth, the options that have been considered are: - Run help in a browser (JavaHelp 2.0 *may* support this; there are accessibility issues, etc.) - Run help in a separate JVM (likely to have interprocess communication problems and NB's memory footprint is big enough as it is) - Fake modality by never using real modal dialogs, but having our own code make windows pretend to be disabled (a road to truly unique disaster there) Created attachment 12976 [details]
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Attachment of log file was a mistake. Please ignore. Created attachment 12977 [details]
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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 NB.dev(200507131800) / closing ... This issue had *1 votes* before move to platform component |