Re: Netbeans 12.2. Wacked. SOLVED !!

[Geertjan Wielenga <ge...@googlemail.com.INVALID>]

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8256465

Gj

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:28 AM jasiii <ja...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Just to share what I finally got to work and why
>
> Netbeans 12.2 when I opened any dialog window the application would just
> freeze and flicker …
> Could not figure out the what or why when any secondary window was opened
> the the application went into frozen mode.
>
> And just to share my approach to figuring out who or what was the cause
> the following are the steps that tried
>
> Safe boot.   This would eliminate any add on utilities that I had added
> (this is good for Windows also)
>
> Create a new account    This would present a clean user profile to try and
> test with.  With my test account Netbeans worked fine
>
> Did a bunch of Google time.  Did not find any smoking guns
>
> Check the system log ..  this only showed when netbeans stalled.  Did no
> help
>
> Check the system activity again this only showed when the application had
> stalled and was not able to add any information
>
> Did more Google and duck duck.  Still no real answer but found out other
> issues that may be run into
>
> Walked away.   At this point I was ready to go back to Swift and C and
> fortran :-<
>
> Started working with the different issues that I had found during the
> Google and Duck Duck search.  Had saved everything that might have helped.
>
> On attempt #XX there was a descrepting about the system tabs settings that
> interfered with a early version on NetBeans
>
> On working with any and all system configuration files on the 4 item I
> found a system preferences for General settings and towards the bottom of
> that window was the option for Prefer tabs had been set to always so I
> changed that to Never.
>
> And magic happened and all was good in my small world :-D
>
> Why did that setting impact NetBeans.   Well that is way over my skill
> level at this point in time
>
> Hope this helps someone else
>
> Oh and a Big Thank you to Paulo Toledo for the Java help that started all
> this
>
> Oh and a small foot note.   If anyone else is using Comcast to try to send
> e-mail to a different country they set foreign email address to :INVALID.
> I spent two full days with their “tech” support working my way up 5 levels
> to get that adjusted.   It worked for three days and now they are blocking
> again..
>
> Enjoy
>
> Jim Sterling (still trying to learn)
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