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[release32 apr 15, MDI] Not sure when this was broken, but the whole system of moving the JavaHelp window out of the way of modal dialogs, and making sure both can be used simultaneously, does not seem to be working any more. At least, the New wizard when displayed while JavaHelp is showing will block access to JavaHelp, and the dialogs will not be resized the way they are supposed to be. Could impact tutorials etc.
Hmm, cannot reproduce. Seems to work fine now. Did however notice that it does not work for the special case of "file selectors" which use the Filesystems as a base--e.g. dialog opened from "Create Group...". These use TopManager.NodeOperation.select. This impl creates an org.netbeans.core.FileChooser which for some reason is a CoronaDialog, a class used only by this subclass apparently, and which does not extend NbPresenter and thus does not work with JavaHelp correctly. This should be fixed. So recategorizing the bug for that.
FWIW, the reason it did not work was that I was actually using apisupport's helpset tester, which does not use the core JavaHelp system and is not designed to behave this way. So that is fine.
*** Issue 11581 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Target milestone -> 3.3
Also noticed that org.openide.nodes.IndexedCustomizer is a raw dialog and reordering nodes tends to open this, causing the same positioning problem. So that should be fixed as well (would probably require an API deprecation, but there does not seem to be much reason for this class to be public anyway--maybe could be fixed, moved to org.openide.actions.*, and the original deprecated and unused).
IndexedCustomizer has now been fixed. Also a thought: maybe org.netbeans.core.JavaHelp instead of listening for changes in NbPresenter could use Toolkit.addAWTEventListener to determine when dialogs are opened. This might be more robust.
Help for the following dialogs is also not getting out of the way: CVS Password Manager Verify Groups (right-click a VCS group and choose Verify)
John, for any additional dialogs other than the file selector which do not interact properly with the help dialog, this is probably because they are raw dialogs and not DialogDescriptor's; please file bugs for the appropriate modules (VCS modules in this case) asking them to not pop up raw dialogs.
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Target milestone -> 3.4
In the javahelp_api_jan_2002 branch I have a fix for this (rewrote modal dialog handling code).
Fixed, see #19620.
verified in nb3.4
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.