I've recently upgraded from 6.5 to 6.7. I'm getting a problem where NetBeans stalls for a minute or so as I enter text. It seems to happen as I start to enter the method name of an instance. For example, if I had a class Job and had an instance job, I'm getting stalling when I write things like:
job.method_name
In this example, NetBeans stalls around the first or second letter of "method_name". The stall last for a minute or two so is quite disruptive.
I think what is happening is it is stalling whilst generating the "Smart Code Completion" dialogues. If so the dialogues don't open.
No error messages are generated and normal operation returns after I've waited for the minute or so that the stall lasts. During a stall the cursor disappears, netbean.exe hogs the CPU and I can do little on the PC until it finishes.
UPDATE - it is code completion. If I turn off "Auto Popup Completion Window" and "Auto Popup Documentation Window" in options (Editor > Code Completion) the problem goes away.
Not a problem for me as I prefer not to having the code completion automatically popup - (if I need a hint I'd rather ask for it), but others could find it annoying.
I've noticed it when I'm working on the code for the class that I'm referencing. For example, if a Job method needs to call an instance of job itself. I'm currently writing a method that creates new jobs based on data from elsewhere, so the method creates a new job, manipulates it and then returns it.
Also, I believe I turned the automatic popup off in 6.5, so 6.7 doesn't seem to have inherited that option setting.
I'm running on XP Pro, with 785200k RAM, and I often run with around that memory all used and my PC page caching a lot. That is the case when at the moment when I've noticed the problem today (I was having the same problem yesterday).
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