Overloaded native NetBeans popup menu

[jkovalsky]

Unfortunately sometimes your popup menu replaces the default menu provided by NetBeans. It would be better to just add your menu items to the NetBeans ones. See the screenshots to understand what I mean. Tested in NetBeans 18 RC2.

Before plugin installation:

After plugin installation:

[hajdam]

Hi,
thank you for reporting this issue.
Unfortunately, the plugin currently cannot detect this specific popup menu.
If this is an issue, as this might be happening in other components in NetBeans or other plugins, currently only options is to disable or uninstall Gui Popup Plugin.

Technical details:
Plugin currently detects when to show popup menu if invocation event is consumed (either by component popup menu or custom handler).
This specific component shows popup menu via listener and doesn't consume the event:
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/c084119009d2e0f736f225d706bc1827af283501/ide/notifications/src/org/netbeans/modules/notifications/center/NotificationTable.java#L104

I'll try to take a look if there might be some other way how to detect this situation. Not sure how often similar code is used, but creating workaround/blacklist for this specific component would probably be insufficient/fragile solution.

In worst case this could warrant removal of the plugin from plugin portal or at least disabling popup functionality of the plugin :-(

[hajdam]

Component added to blacklist to prevent popup menu takeover. Fix will be included in next release, but in far future.

Technical details:
Standard popup menu should be invoked with mouse MOUSE_PRESSED or MOUSE_RELEASED (depending on platform), but NotificationTable component invokes it later with MOUSE_CLICKED event and also cannot handle that popup menu is already show (some components can replace popup menu).

Hopefully there are not many components that handle popup menu in similar fashion, as I don't see how this could be detected / prevented (unless showing popup menu with some kind of delay, but that would prevent right-click hold-release). Opted to use blacklist.