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Ricardo Augusto
Ricardo Augusto

Reputation: 558

Two questions about Netbeans

I'm migrating from Eclipse to Netbeans, and two problems are happening:

  1. I created my own file template, but how can I set a default for the "Created file name" field? I always name my files as Class_Name.class.php and Netbeans doesn't allow me to edit the field to add the ".class".
  2. Sometimes, the mouse cursor change from the default text pointer to arrow pointer and I have to close and re-open Netbeans to go back to normal. Anyone had the same problem?

I'm running a Mac OS X 10.6.5 and Netbeans 6.9.1

Upvotes: 0

Views: 244

Answers (1)

RobertB
RobertB

Reputation: 4602

  1. Go to Tools|Templates, and in the template manager find the template in question. (Unintuitively) Right-Click on the template and select Properties. You can change the File Name property here, but in NB 6.9.1 it seems a bit quirky to me. For example, I changed the File Name for the PHP Class template from PHPClass to PHPCLass.class. It certainly put the .class on to the filename, but gave me PHPCLass.class in the File Name field on the New PHP Class dialog (File|New File...|etc., or any of the number of other ways to get to a new file dialog). I had to deselect the .class part manually to give the file a name that still included the .class. More annoying, however, was that if the value of the File Name property contains an extension-looking piece, then the automatic generation of the .php was surpressed! I had to go back and change the File Name property to "PHPClass.class.php" and deal with retaining both the .class and the .php.

    I tried going a different route, by attempting to add a new extension in Tools|Options|Miscellaneous|Files, but that would not let me create an extension that contained a period.

    I have not found a property, yet, that controls the created name directly.

  2. I've never seen that, ever. I'm not on a Mac, so that might be something quirky/localized to the Mac look and feel (try a different one--Napkin is always entertaining for about 90 seconds, :-) until you realize not all controls are accounted for), or maybe (and more scary) a quirk/bug in the native-end of Mac's implementation of Swing components.

Upvotes: 2

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