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Bug 226794 - Screen flashes gray
Summary: Screen flashes gray
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0.2
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Stanislav Aubrecht
URL:
Keywords: RANDOM
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-02-27 15:04 UTC by fresler
Modified: 2015-02-13 10:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter:

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2013-02-27 15:05 UTC, fresler 		Details
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Description fresler 2013-02-27 15:04:58 UTC 
Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.3 (Build 201302132200)
Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.8.2 running on x86_64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_41
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 20.14-b01-445

Screen randomly starts flashing gray when clicking in the code editor.  There doesn't seem to be any reproduceable pattern to it.
Comment 1 fresler 2013-02-27 15:05:02 UTC 
Created attachment 131969 [details]
IDE log
Comment 2 Stanislav Aubrecht 2013-05-21 13:36:06 UTC 
Reporter, please try running with JDK 1.7 and reopen if it is reproducible, thanks.

Also, can you please a different Mac computer? Or maybe turn graphics switching on/off?
Comment 3 fresler 2013-05-21 14:00:23 UTC 
I haven't experienced this issue in quite some time so I think the problem has been resolved.

Thanks!
Floyd
Comment 4 fresler 2013-05-21 16:53:49 UTC 
I spoke too soon.  It just started happening again.  The trigger seems to be when the "connecting to database" popup shows when connecting to a MySQL server.
Comment 5 dylanv 2015-02-13 10:47:31 UTC 
This is still a problem with netbeans 8 and OSX 10.10. 'fresler@netbeans.org ' is correct in saying that this happens when connecting to a database via the popup window. What Ive noticed is that the IDE goes through a lot of revalidation when this happens, and if the process is taking too long, this bug appears. It also happens to me in a very reproducible manner if I start working, my computer goes into sleep mode and I then take it out of sleep mode and hit CTL Space when  starting to write a SQL query (which triggers the popup.) This bug has persisted in every Netbeans release since the bug was mentioned as well as with each release of Java. The only work around is to restart the IDE and not let the computer go into sleep.