Thankx Emilian and Jaroslav, I'll try adding this flag to our application. Indeed it was caused by external drives (on a Solaris system).
P.s. I also saw a property called org.netbeans.modules.masterfs.watcher.disable. Does it harm to also set this property to true? Greets, Humphrey. On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6:10 PM, Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > Might be valuable to investigate why it is causing hangs. It generally > shouldn't and might expose something in your code too. (Do you have network > drives on Windows or something?) > > As for disabling, define the system property > netbeans.indexing.noFileRefresh=false > as shown here https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/blob/ > 91ba983d23e837d0f3fab8959b451d86e7e7cd7f/core.ui/src/org/ > netbeans/core/ui/warmup/MenuWarmUpTask.java#L166 > > --emi > > -------- Original Message -------- > On 9 February 2018 8:12 AM, Humphrey Clerx <hcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > Yes, I know this works in NetBeans itself. But it appears in my RCP > > application that we develop using the NetBeans platform. How can I > disable > > it there? > > > > Greets, > > Humphrey. > > > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Delfi Ramirez del...@delfiramirez.info > >wrote: > > > >>Hello Humphrey > >>try > >>Tools/Options/Miscellaneous/Files => ❑ Enable auto-scanning of sources > >>cheers > >>On 08/02/2018 11:46, Humphrey Clerx wrote: > >>>Hello, > >>>Recently we switched from NetBeans 7.4 to NetBeans 8.2 and all of a > sudden > >>> our RCP application occasionally hangs while displaying the "Checking > for > >>> external changes" progress bar. How can I disable this functionality > in my > >>> RCP application? > >>>Thanks in advance, > >>> Humphrey. > >>> > >> > > > > > > > >In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain - Nietzsche > > #------------------------------------------------------------- > > _O > > ,__/> > ><" > > ' > > > -- In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain - Nietzsche #------------------------------------------------------------- \_O ,__/> <" '