Re: NB 11.2 change default project path
TBH I didn'T read all of your reply, but from the first few lines I did read: no, you got me wrong. My question is as simple as that: Is it possible, and if so: How?, to change the default project folder where new projects supposed to get created on disk? I didn't found any setting in whatever the GUI gives me (as someone else on this list a few ago said: "Netbeans is basically a graphical wrapper around maven.") and I didn't found any config file. The one mentioned on many search results on the net doesn'T seem to have an effect either, and the other user replied to my question seem to didn't got my question at all and pointed me to a file wich has nothing to do with per-user settings at all. Yes, Netbeans has many flaws - and obvious a lot of them exists since 15(!) years (I found a bug report wich evolved into a discusion from back late 2004 about this very topic). Is it really that much to ask just for a simple input dialog right at the first time start up where the user wants his default project location to be? And is it that hard to at least somewhat follow the style many graphical programms followed for the past three decades where you have a menu bar, starting with File, then Edit, then maybe some more, and end with Extras and Help - and to just put an "options" or "settings" into one of those - and offer the same settings dialog as mentioned before? How old is Netbeans? 15+ years? And it's menus are that - sorry to say it this directly: immature? It's like an early not feature complete alpha where someone couldn't decide just where to put it. Back to modern days: Java 11 doesn't allow compiling for Java 5 any more. It's a simple if() just to check for the version of the compiler - and if it's 11 or above set the minimum target compiling level to at least 6 and disable any lower versions. C'mon - don't tell me 100s of devs could get this done in the time this exists. All made fun about me cause I'm using just a simple editor with some basic syntax highlight and a terminal to compile. If I see what a mess and overhead all this fancy IDEs and build-tools costs - wich in fact they're supposed to do for the dev - not in addition to it - what's the benefit of wasting time to figure out how to get around simplest fails done in every beginners for dummies book? I'm done with it - back to the old style - that at least did what I told to do .. Am 20.02.2020 um 03:45 schrieb Mark Eggers: First of all, I'm just a happy NetBeans user. Second of all, this is just my opinion. So let me try to understand your problem first. 1. You crashed what appears to be a Windows data and programs disk This is different than where your user profile is stored. I understand this, since I do the same thing to minimize usage of a small OS SSD drive. 2. You reinstalled NetBeans on a new disk 3. You recovered your NetBeans projects on a new disk The problem is that the 'Recent Projects' list links to the wrong location. I'm guessing that this is the case since either drive letters have changed or directories have changed. In addition, there may be a lot of issues with the cache. The best solution is to: 1. Ignore the 'Recent Projects' list until you've opened 10 or more projects As Gj has pointed out, editing the projectui.properties file is not something that should be done. I confess that I've done it, but it's not trivial. Just don't do it. 2. Before starting NetBeans, delete the cache directory. In short, both will be rebuilt properly by NetBeans as you use the IDE. As to your setting a target below 6 with JDK 11: - you can't. This is a JDK limitation. If you want to compile (and be proper) a J2EE 2.5 project, with source and target set to 1.5 (in Maven parlance), then you have one option that I can see. a. Install JDK / JRE 8 along with JDK / JRE 11. b. In Tools->Java Platforms, register the JDK 8 platform c. In the project Properties->Build->Compile panel, configure the project to use the registered JDK 8 Java Platform I do this all the time, as I'm trying to get a company I consult for to move from J2EE 2.5 / Tomcat 7 to servlet spec 4 and Tomcat 9. I do this on Windows 10 Professional, with the last Oracle JRE / JDK 8 and AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.6 installed from the zip file. The only time things get unpleasant is if I try to build a JDK 5 project from the command line, since my default Java is 11.0.6. . . . just my two cents /mde/ On 2/19/2020 3:56 PM, cryptearth wrote: I know at least someone will feel offended no matter how polite I try to write my response, hence I try to just repeat the question instead of responding to the reply (I guess someone who read carefully might notice what I mean and try to avoid to say out loud): Is there a way to (re-)set the default projects folder? And why is it that almost any answer you get when you ask google about this very topic points to file I mentioned? Matt Am 20.02.2020 um 00:23 sc
Re: NB 11.2 change default project path
I know at least someone will feel offended no matter how polite I try to write my response, hence I try to just repeat the question instead of responding to the reply (I guess someone who read carefully might notice what I mean and try to avoid to say out loud): Is there a way to (re-)set the default projects folder? And why is it that almost any answer you get when you ask google about this very topic points to file I mentioned? Matt Am 20.02.2020 um 00:23 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: Do not change that file, do not touch it. The file you need, if what you want is define the JDK to use to start NetBeans, is "etc/netbeans.conf" in the installation directory. Gj On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:22 AM cryptearth <mailto:cryptea...@cryptearth.de>> wrote: Well, I wrote my mail to soon before even try it myself - as I have to add: No matter what I put into the mentioned properties file it doesn't change the default path NB uses. I also tried to find it in other config files and even in the windows registry - but had no luck. So, as manual edit a config file referred to on many resulst found by google, and as there seem no option in the GUI I can change - how do I change the default folder? Matt Am 20.02.2020 um 00:18 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: Np, you never need to edit "projectui.properties". Gj On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:12 PM cryptearth mailto:cryptea...@cryptearth.de>> wrote: So, as I had to recover from a hard disk crash I had NB 11.2 set up again but didn't got any dialog about default project folder. As I got through google this has to be done manual by editing the file projectui.properties located in userhome/appdata/roaming/netbeans/11.2/config/preferences/org/netbeans/modules. I have found several topics as early as NB 6.x. Two simple questions: 1) Why and why wasn't there any change since at least NB 6.x? 2) Is there any hidden way to change this via the GUI? There're several other things the GUI doesn't handle as it should, for example allow setting target java version below 6 when a compiler version 11 or higher is used, as since v11 compiling is only supported down to v6 -> compile failure. Isn't an IDE supposed to give a developer some convenience? As far as I got into the overhead Netbeans require I'm not sure if it's the right IDE for me - but I couldn't get Eclipse to even launch properly, let alone set up a project. Matt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-h...@netbeans.apache.org> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
Re: NB 11.2 change default project path
Well, I wrote my mail to soon before even try it myself - as I have to add: No matter what I put into the mentioned properties file it doesn't change the default path NB uses. I also tried to find it in other config files and even in the windows registry - but had no luck. So, as manual edit a config file referred to on many resulst found by google, and as there seem no option in the GUI I can change - how do I change the default folder? Matt Am 20.02.2020 um 00:18 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: Np, you never need to edit "projectui.properties". Gj On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:12 PM cryptearth <mailto:cryptea...@cryptearth.de>> wrote: So, as I had to recover from a hard disk crash I had NB 11.2 set up again but didn't got any dialog about default project folder. As I got through google this has to be done manual by editing the file projectui.properties located in userhome/appdata/roaming/netbeans/11.2/config/preferences/org/netbeans/modules. I have found several topics as early as NB 6.x. Two simple questions: 1) Why and why wasn't there any change since at least NB 6.x? 2) Is there any hidden way to change this via the GUI? There're several other things the GUI doesn't handle as it should, for example allow setting target java version below 6 when a compiler version 11 or higher is used, as since v11 compiling is only supported down to v6 -> compile failure. Isn't an IDE supposed to give a developer some convenience? As far as I got into the overhead Netbeans require I'm not sure if it's the right IDE for me - but I couldn't get Eclipse to even launch properly, let alone set up a project. Matt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-h...@netbeans.apache.org> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
NB 11.2 change default project path
So, as I had to recover from a hard disk crash I had NB 11.2 set up again but didn't got any dialog about default project folder. As I got through google this has to be done manual by editing the file projectui.properties located in userhome/appdata/roaming/netbeans/11.2/config/preferences/org/netbeans/modules. I have found several topics as early as NB 6.x. Two simple questions: 1) Why and why wasn't there any change since at least NB 6.x? 2) Is there any hidden way to change this via the GUI? There're several other things the GUI doesn't handle as it should, for example allow setting target java version below 6 when a compiler version 11 or higher is used, as since v11 compiling is only supported down to v6 -> compile failure. Isn't an IDE supposed to give a developer some convenience? As far as I got into the overhead Netbeans require I'm not sure if it's the right IDE for me - but I couldn't get Eclipse to even launch properly, let alone set up a project. Matt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
Re: unable to add resources or resource folder in NetBeans 11.2
Well, for someone not knowing much about maven, and no knowing that NetBeans is just a GUI wrapper around it, it's not intuitive if you have to follow rules you just don't know about. How was I supposed to know I have to add a folder in files view called resources under src/main instead of just add a new folder in the projects view. I also tried to consult the help - but when you search for "resource" nothing pops about resources. As this is nowhere noted (at least nowhere in the help) and in fact is nowhere near anything a new user would intuivitely try to get working - this HAS to be done different - or at least noted somewhere obvious how to do it or what rules to follow. Matt Am 12.02.2020 um 19:11 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: It is exactly and precisely how Maven works. NetBeans does nothing special, it simply supports 100% Maven exactly and precisely as Maven is defined. Gj On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 7:09 PM cryptearth wrote: Well, although that's less than non-intuitive it worked. Thanks. Matt Am 12.02.2020 um 19:04 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: NetBeans is simply a wrapper around your Maven command line and the POM defines your project. Where would you normally put that file in a normal Maven project is where you would put it in your project in NetBeans: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html Gj On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 7:01 PM cryptearth <mailto:cryptea...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: Hello NetBeans community, so I decided to use NetBeans over Eclipse just for no reason - and I'm already struggle at my first project: I have a json file I want to load, but no matter where I place it it doesn't get copied over to the build. I also tried to create a folder - but it doesn't show up in projects view, only in files view. I just can't make the folder appear as a resource folder, neither for the json file itself. On the net there was a way with project properties > sources - but there's nothing I can add a folder just some info text about some plugins. Any help? I'm totally lost as I neither can figure it out myself but also no info I can find with google seems to work. Thanks in advance, Matt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-h...@netbeans.apache.org> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
Re: unable to add resources or resource folder in NetBeans 11.2
Well, although that's less than non-intuitive it worked. Thanks. Matt Am 12.02.2020 um 19:04 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: NetBeans is simply a wrapper around your Maven command line and the POM defines your project. Where would you normally put that file in a normal Maven project is where you would put it in your project in NetBeans: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html Gj On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 7:01 PM cryptearth wrote: Hello NetBeans community, so I decided to use NetBeans over Eclipse just for no reason - and I'm already struggle at my first project: I have a json file I want to load, but no matter where I place it it doesn't get copied over to the build. I also tried to create a folder - but it doesn't show up in projects view, only in files view. I just can't make the folder appear as a resource folder, neither for the json file itself. On the net there was a way with project properties > sources - but there's nothing I can add a folder just some info text about some plugins. Any help? I'm totally lost as I neither can figure it out myself but also no info I can find with google seems to work. Thanks in advance, Matt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org <mailto:users-h...@netbeans.apache.org> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
unable to add resources or resource folder in NetBeans 11.2
Hello NetBeans community, so I decided to use NetBeans over Eclipse just for no reason - and I'm already struggle at my first project: I have a json file I want to load, but no matter where I place it it doesn't get copied over to the build. I also tried to create a folder - but it doesn't show up in projects view, only in files view. I just can't make the folder appear as a resource folder, neither for the json file itself. On the net there was a way with project properties > sources - but there's nothing I can add a folder just some info text about some plugins. Any help? I'm totally lost as I neither can figure it out myself but also no info I can find with google seems to work. Thanks in advance, Matt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
