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aberrant80
aberrant80

Reputation: 12997

What is "Task scanning" in NetBeans and how to turn it off?

Sometimes when opening projects, NetBeans will display a "Task scanning" progress bar on the status bar. What exactly is it scanning for? Is it possible to turn it off as I noticed that sometimes it takes a while and maybe it's just my installation but sometimes I have to force it to stop when closing NetBeans.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6569

Answers (4)

alain.janinm
alain.janinm

Reputation: 20065

In Netbeans 7.0.1 you can't disable the Task List definitively.

Instead you can limit/avoid scan :

  • Right click in Tasks window
  • Filter -> Edit
  • Unselect all

You can also cancel the running "Task scanning" process :

  • Right click on the progress bar
  • Click Cancel process

Upvotes: 0

Cypher
Cypher

Reputation: 13

Using Neatbeans 7.2.1

You can go to Tools->Options->Miscellaneous then under the Files tab uncheck Enable auto-scanning of sources. Whenever you want to have Netbeans scan you project you can go to Source->Scan for External Changes.

Tools->options->C++, or whichever language you are working with, under the Other tab uncheck Reparse on File Change. Whenever you want to reparse right click your project Code Assistance->Reparse Project.

Upvotes: 1

Kirill Strizhak
Kirill Strizhak

Reputation: 2687

It is a "Task List" plugin working. It does this:

Provides the Task List window, which lists places of interest in your project, such as lines that contain "TODO", "XXX", "PENDING", Java compilation errors, and so on. You can click an entry in the list to navigate to the corresponding place in your code.

You can remove it by going to "Tools > Plugins" menu, "Installed" tab, selecting "Task List" from the installed plugin list and clicking "Uninstall" button. (These instructions are for NetBeans 6.5, but should be somewhat alike for all the other versions).

But I would advise against removing it - I find it pretty useful. There are times when I forget about several TODO's, and Tasks window is a great way to look 'em up.

If you can't see that window, you can access it through "Window > Task" menu, or by pressing Ctrl+6 (again, these instructions are for NetBeans 6.5)

Upvotes: 3

J-16 SDiZ
J-16 SDiZ

Reputation: 26910

It is scanning for the // TODO blarblar and // FIXME .... alikes.

You can disable it by removing the plugin.

Upvotes: 0

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