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I am registering a StatusLineElementProvider with the following file contents in META-INF/services: org.netbeans.modules.breadcrumb.StatusLineProvider #position=-2147483648 to try to position my provider to the extreme left of the status bar. No matter what I do, it always appears at the extreme right. I would guess that the status bar and progress bar are getting preferential treatment. It would be nicer if they were registered in the normal way, so that they could be ordered - in my case, the component I am adding really belongs to the left of the statusbar, or possibly between it and the progress bar.
Update: It appears this *does* work on JDK 5 on Mac OS, but not on JDK 6. It also appears to be unusable because the component gets moved around violently as the status text changes. Probably the layout of the statusbar should allocate percentages of space or something.
Author of StatusLineElementProvider is Jirka, passing to him. Please reassign further if I'm wrong, I don't know who own this at this time.
StatusLineElementProvider just reads element from the system lookup which should return them by given positioning. Reassigned to lookup for evaluation.
Provide unit test please.