negora commented on issue #4790: URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/issues/4790#issuecomment-1297354885
@mbien Thank you for investigating this issue. That information looks interesting. Besides that, I knew that years ago I had read about this same issue somewhere, but I didn't remember exactly where. I've made a quick search and I think that I've found such bug report: [Bug 236431 - action items does not show hints and warnings ](https://bz.apache.org/netbeans/show_bug.cgi?id=236431). This dates back to NetBeans 7.4. According to that thread, Geertjan Wielenga wrote an article about that topic in the Oracle blog. Here there is a copy taken from the Internet Archive: [Towards a Centralized Dashboard for Coding Problems](https://web.archive.org/web/20170313122328/https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/towards_a_centralized_dashboard_for). I see 2 important points in it: * The *Action items* window was originally the *Task list* window. So it seems that it was repurposed later to do more things. That may explain its peculiar behavior. * Jan Lahoda wrote a plug-in that showed **all warnings** in the *Action items* window. I don't know if it was just for the current file or for the whole project. But such plug-in seems to have vanished. I've checked the [Lahoda's GitHub profile](https://github.com/lahodaj) but I've not had any luck. **I guess that plug-in might be the key to know what is needed.** In my opinion, it would be enough if NetBeans IDE were able to show the warnings of the current file. If we need a detailed analysis of the whole project, we can always run *Source → Inspect...* Indeed, I think that's the way the *Problems* panel of IntelliJ works nowadays: * For the current file: shows errors and warnings. * For the whole project: shows errors only. Do you want warnings? Run an inspection. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
