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The various wizards for new NetBeans module types specify mnemonic characters for components which are read-only, such as "&Created Files:" in the new file type wizard. Mnemonics should only be used for fields that are editable. A related problem is that these read-only fields are enabled, and so tab switches to them even though there is no visual indication it has done so. Instead, the cursor just disappears until you tab to an editable field. Setting all read-only components to be disabled fixes this problem.
This is intentional and also very handy. Since e.g in case of "&Created Files:" you can easily press: Alt-C, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and you have text copy-pasted in the clipboard. In some case like code.name.base in project's properties it is quite useful. And also it is easier for the user to report a bug when an information from a non-editable field is needed.
Okay, I believe you are right. But why stop half-way, in a state that provides no clue as to this usefulness? Hidden features generally indicate a bad UI. I recommend that when a user presses Alt-C, do the "select all" action as part of switching focus, to make it obvious that this text is available. And I dropped the priority to P5. Doesn't that mean "not to be fixed in our lifetime"? :-)
I think that this was carefully considered by our HIE team which cooperates with users. So this is not actually problem/behavior of apisupport wizards. This is behavior of all our project's customizer, all wizards, ... probably all read-only textfields in the whole IDE. So I still sugest INVALID. But I do not have strong opinion about your idea. Since there may be usecase we just do not see as an ordinary developers ;) So please try to discuss this on nbui mailing list and put probably also "Jan Rojcek" on the CC. Than we would have to adjust whole IDE to be compact - probably some more general issue. All this reopened with adjusted summary.
It's no big deal, and at least it was discussed. I'll mention it to Jan next time we speak (he designed Jackpot's new UI), but avoid nbui as I've found its "signal-to-noise ratio" to be very low. Thanks for "listening" to me regarding this small issue.