Seeking opinions regarding NetBeans 13

I cross use IntelliJ and Netbeans (SDK or vanilla) both professionally and free time. Also before that I used Eclipse for 9 years professionally, now not so much anymore. To me… all these IDEs are more or less the same. Just matter of settings and if you are like me, lazy to remap the keys, learning the different shortcuts. The reason for cross use is mainly curiosity, teasing my brain and company policies, not that any action couldn’t be done in any of the IDEs (I work mainly with Java EE and jME these days on this front).

Opinions and images are very strong amongst coders (and people in general). And it is really sad that it is one defining aspect of the SDK. That simply being based on a non-sexy platform, it is deemed the unwanted child. I would be a lot happier if the SDK would be considered as shitty for… being shitty on its own accord :slight_smile: Not that I think it is shitty, but maybe you understand what I mean :slight_smile:

This is quite meaningless post. But one point is that if there is something off with the SDK (minus the platform issue), please all post issues to the SDK Github page! And if there is something wrong in the NB side, please post issue to their issue tracker!

I’ve been developing software for 25 years now. And one of the most frustrating things I know is having to Google bugs in your own software that you never personally encountered. Finding the “I hope the devs fix this, this has been a problem for some time” rants in all corners of the Internet :smiley:

And the more specific you are, the better. Saying “the food was bad” is somewhat helpful, but saying “I think the food needed more salt or something, tasted bland and the presentation wasn’t pleasing to my eye. I had to wait for 15 minutes for the waiter to take our order, this is too long” gives us a lot more to work with. Engaging in a dialog with the service provider yields fruitful improvements to both of the parties.

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@tonihele I installed 3.5.2 sdk at first things worked smoothly, but after sometime using, when i want to import model, file opener dialog is buggy each time i select a folder it takes ten seconds to open it, during work with material panel it crashes, and animation shows and work in sdk but in 3jo animcomposer is null. Also when i close scene viewer suddenly when animation playing again when i reopen it last animation before sudden close still playing and another same model is at scene

yes i agree with you netbeans is not stable for long time i was using it that times after apache i moved to idea, idea is best choice when working with jee and spring, it can be good effort if we move from sdk and start to make stand alone editor or make it on top of idea, i see some other users making a editor for themselves maybe they can make team and work on it rather than several one person projects. still with all problems i used sdk many times for minor use-cases and so thankful for all efforts on it, shame that i can’t help with it.

Could you make separate Github issues for all the mentioned issues? Please attach any possible log (was it View | IDE log) output also.

Slow file opener… could you also add a screenshot of this so that we know exactly what opener is in question. Some belong to native NB I’m sure.

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There is already a plugin started for IDEA. As well as a handful of other editors to replace the SDK (general ones, not the ones lately in the screenshot topic as they are more or less tailored to a specific use case and not meant for general consumption as such).

Ok can you give link to plugin and editors,
I wanted to take screenshot but even open project windows went laggy :smiley:

even when i clicked open model… button it took half a minute to get to open,
for other issues i will gather logs

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Sounds a bit of our own problem then… That a model is slow to open. But we’ll see. Thanks.

no no not model although when i hit open on model it still takes time but, going through directories take time for example as you see in screenshot we are in rayyyy folder but if we want to get to another directory when i click each folder it take over 10 seconds or more to open that directory so navigation through filesystem to reach to the model folder takes lots of times

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There are numerous, I’ll just provide the first ones from the search, Hopefully you can fill in the list:
http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/jme3-spaceshift-editor/

If you want to talk about these, please open a separate topic about this as it is way offtopic here.

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Hmm, I could not reproduce this on Linux nor Windows. Is there any specific about this case? Like how deep directory structure it needs to be or what the directory should contain?

edit: could be a broken link [NETBEANS-1537] File - Open... "Windows cannot find the target" - ASF JIRA (java - Navigating the file system with netbeans is VERY slow - Stack Overflow)

No there is nothing related about getting deep in directories, it was working fine at first i don’t know what caused it maybe if i re-install it, it gets OK it happened during time of using don’t know exactly when maybe it caused by other bugs and issues I’m sure of it. as you told I’m trying to get logs, also I’m into reproducing that animation problem. and getting a pic i will open a new discussion and tag you maybe filesystem navigation is no related to sdk but netbeans, also i checked the idea plugin it’s not supported by my version of idea unfortunately i already found some projects they are old

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