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Bug 199952 - LaF of Netbeans affects possibilities of Preview Design
Summary: LaF of Netbeans affects possibilities of Preview Design
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: guibuilder
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0.1
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: issues@guibuilder
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Reported: 2011-07-07 16:16 UTC by asenk
Modified: 2011-07-15 13:43 UTC (History)
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Description asenk 2011-07-07 16:16:05 UTC 
When netbeans runs on some LaF menu Preview Desing contains different items:

Laf:Nimbus
menu items:
-Metal
-CDE/Motif

Laf:Metal
menu items:
-Metal
-Nimbus
-CDE/Motif
-GTK+

Laf:GTK
menu items:
-Metal
-CDE/Motif
GTK+
Comment 1 Jan Stola 2011-07-15 13:43:19 UTC 
This is as designed.

The current implementation of the preview in another look and feel is just a set of hack that somehow work in some cases (there is not standard/clean way to have two look and feels simultaneously in one Java application).

On the other hand, we know that it doesn't work in other cases. For example, we are unable to preview in another SynthLookAndFeel when the IDE is running in some SynthLookAndFeel. GTK and Nimbus are both synth look and feels. Hence, it is not possible to preview in GTK when IDE runs on Nimbus and vice versa.