Any chance your module with the file type is configured to be an *autoload* module? If so, the jar may not be opened until something that depends on it requires it, so your loader won't be registered.
-Tim On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:56 PM John Kostaras <jkosta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hallo, > > I wonder if anybody has tried to create to create a new File Type using the > mavenized module project. Let me be more specific. > > - NetBeans 11.3 > - Follow this tutorial > <https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/71/nbm-filetype.html> to > create > a new File type, but instead of creating a "Java with Ant -> NetBeans > Modules -> Module" to create a NB module, use a "Java with Maven -> > NetBeans Module" NB module. > - If you follow the steps of the tutorial using the Ant NB module, > everything runs fine and you can open the file with the defined > extension > in a MultiView seeing both Source and Visual buttons (and History) > - If you follow the tutorial's steps using the Maven NB module, then the > file type registration seems to not be successful; when you open a file > with the defined extension the MultiView only shows the Source (and > History) button(s), i.e. no Visual and if you open the Properties > window it > says that the file type is not recognized. > - Steps are: > 1. New > Other > Module Development > File Type, which > creates the *DataObject.java, > VisualElement.java *and the *Template *file. > > > 1. Is it a bug or am I 'm doing something wrong? > 2. There seems to not be a lot of tutorials around; I would appreciate > if you could point me to a better one than the one I mention, or I could > write an updated tutorial (if it works and I have done something wrong) > > Thank you in advance for the prompt reply. > > John. > -- http://timboudreau.com