IDE project properties will not display

[mccorb]

Using Netbeans 6.7.1. I have several java projects and modules from some tutorials dealing wih the Netbeans platform in my projects tab. When I right click on one of them and select "Properties", the properties dialog never appears. It used to work. Not sure when it quit working.

I uninstalled 6.7.1 and re-installed it. Same problem. I installed v 6.8, and ran it. When it started up it asked me if I wanted to migrate setting (or something to that effect) from the earlier version. I said yes. Maybe a mistake....anyway v 6.8 has the same problem on this PC.

Can anyone help me figure out some steps to take to diagnose this issue and resolve it? I am not sure quite where to start but if I can't bring up the properties dialog for a project then I can't get much done.

thanks

[John Lussmyer]

Join the club!
I did finally get my Project Properties to display again though.
I deleted my entire project tree and reloaded it from source control.
That made it work again.

I'm betting there is some odd setting/interaction in the project file that can cause this.

[mccorb]

OK. here is what happened to me...maybe to you also...I just kind of stumbled across it.

I work in multiple locations using a laptop...typically with a large external monitor that I actually do my work on. At location 1 the external monitor is to the right and at location 2 it is on the left. Apparently netbeans "remembers" the location of the last place the properties window was opened. If I was working on the right monitor when I last opened the properties window and now I am working at the other location then I can't see it.

There is also no icon to indicate that a secondary window is open. The worst part is that if you don't realize what has happened and you click back on the ide window or anyplace else then the dialog window loses focus...there might be some way to get it back but I don't know what it is.

If you realize it right away you can use alt-space and then press M to move the window with the keyboard if you can figure out where it is (hint: figure out which side the mouse comes in from if you move it).

Anyway, now that I know what is happening...where does netbeans hold it's settings for screen position etc. so that I can delete them and begin anew? Also I would call this a bug...netbeans should check its screen position cache against the current monitor config when it starts up.

[wadechandler]

I actually contributed some of that code which keeps the location back in the day. I will see if I can't contribute a fix for this. Weird the way that is working though. Seems to be related to the way multiple monitors actual coordinates work from monitor to monitor as I have two monitors turned on and it still happens even though they are configured in same relative positions to each other.

The current code does in fact try to use the current context and compare that to the stored settings. At least what I contributed did. It should put it in a visible area if there is a difference which would break it. Something is going wrong with figuring out whether or not the old coordinates are actually within the current view or not. I'll try to debug this next time it happens to me.

The file this is kept in the user directory is:
NBUSERDIR/config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/projectuiapi.properties

[kedi]

Thanks @mccorb, your post really helped. the same was happening with me on nb 6.9/6.9.1 as i use 2 monitors some times.

just corrected the .x to positive value in projectuiapi.properties arfter reading @wadechandler's reply and it worked..

CustomizerDialog.dialog.height=583
CustomizerDialog.dialog.width=808
CustomizerDialog.dialog.x=10
CustomizerDialog.dialog.y=99

Thanks both of you again.