Re: Refactoring

2023-08-21 Thread Chris Olsen
Alonso and All -- What has helped me immensely to understand this subject is Fowler, M. (2019). Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd). -- Chris - Original Message - From: "Alonso Del Arte" To: "NetBeans Mailing List" Sent: Monday, August 21, 2023 5:47:41 PM

Netbeans 15 installation hangs

2022-09-18 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone -- I have successfully installed Netbeans 15 on my office machine (Windows 10) but on my home machine (Windows 11) the installation hangs. It stops at the 20% point in the "Checking for updates" Progress indicator, and if I tell it to not check for updates it stops at the

Netbeans development on the Mac

2021-11-18 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone -- I am a seriously amateur JavaFX programmer and have written a freeware statistical package for high school teachers of Advanced Placement Statistics. I have no trouble packaging my program for the PC, but commonly teachers run afoul of the Mac Gatekeeper when trying to

Re: users Digest 7 Jul 2021 19:24:25 -0000 Issue 1288

2021-07-08 Thread Chris Olsen
Bradley and All -- Thank you for the lengthy response and pom. I would like to briefly respond to your comment below: --- Separately, I don't see any issue with an end-user having to install a version of the JRE to run Java applications.  In Windows, it is quite easy, isn't it?

Failing at updating Netbeans to 12.4 on a Mac

2021-06-03 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone -- I currently am running Netbeans 11.3 on a relatively old Mac. I tried to update ( = "Check for updates) but it failed. a) Should it, in a just world, have worked? b) Should I just not care, uninstall 11.3 and install 12.4? I am NOT a Mac person and messing this

Problem with null pointer and stack trace

2020-11-12 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone -- I am faced with a bit of difficulty tracking down a null pointer. I am only slightly experienced with Exceptions, but thus far I seem to have been relatively successful at using them in my code. However, my new problem is that I cannot connect the null pointer exception

Re: Maven deployment plugin for JavaFX

2020-09-04 Thread Chris Olsen
e to work and I will share. As mentioned, I’m working on a Java app to do all the above with one click – not finished yet !! Regards David On 04/09/2020, 13:32, "Chris Olsen" wrote: David -- I am much interested in your statement... > We have als

Re: Maven deployment plugin for JavaFX

2020-09-04 Thread Chris Olsen
David -- I am much interested in your statement... > We have also mastered the issues around Apple notarization needed to distribute an .app or .dmg. Can elaborate on this? Or better yet provide some code or script to make this happen? I do NOT want to mess with XCode!! -- Chris

Re: Native packaging

2020-05-28 Thread Chris Olsen
David and All -- Having recently struggled through jpackage on both PCs and Macs, Netbeans support would be (IMHO) fantastic! If I were a developer, rather than a statistician writing software for my students' use, I would most certainly offer to assist. Now, however, I have an amateur's

Re:

2020-05-20 Thread Chris Olsen
Brain Rebooting -- Advice from a fellow "Just a Learner": Grab the book, "Learn JavaX 8" by Kishori Sharan. It has been my bible for many years and is wonderful! -- Chris Olsen - Original Message - From: "Brain Rebooting" To: "users"

Re: Netbeans, JavaFX, and Maven

2020-04-16 Thread Chris Olsen
Ty and All -- I am afraid I am very much a beginner, and new to Maven, but if it would help to compare a complete pom that (Shock!) works, here is one. In my ignorance I pretty much had to take what Netbeans generated, with perhaps a very small amount of fiddling. -- Chris

Re: Java 14 / Netbeans download problem

2020-03-19 Thread Chris Olsen
ful to "entry level" folks? -- Chris - Original Message - From: Emilian Bold To: Chris Olsen Cc: Geertjan Wielenga , Patrik Karlström , users Sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 01:59:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Java 14 / Netbeans download problem Then again, the installer could pe

Re: Java 14 / Netbeans download problem

2020-03-18 Thread Chris Olsen
ion of NetBeans and see if it works. > > > Den ons 18 mars 2020 kl 19:58 skrev Chris Olsen : > >> Hello, Everyone -- >> >>I just downloaded the AdoptOpenJDK, and installed it via the .msi >> file. Then I attempted to download Netbeans 11.3. >> >>

Java 14 / Netbeans download problem

2020-03-18 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone -- I just downloaded the AdoptOpenJDK, and installed it via the .msi file. Then I attempted to download Netbeans 11.3. The Netbeans installation reached an "unexpected exception," to wit: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/util/jar/Pack200 Has

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-13 Thread Chris Olsen
Geertjan and All -- Not a problem! To whom and where should the check be sent? -- Chris - Original Message - From: Geertjan Wielenga To: Chris Olsen Cc: Emilian Bold , John Mc , Netbeans Mailing List , Paul Szudzik , Robert Erdt , Thomas Wolf , bmelen...@hemstech.com Sent: Fri

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-13 Thread Chris Olsen
- Original Message - From: Geertjan Wielenga To: Chris Olsen Cc: Emilian Bold , John Mc , Netbeans Mailing List , Paul Szudzik , Robert Erdt , Thomas Wolf , bmelen...@hemstech.com Sent: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:22:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Statement of disappointment Sure! If you’re

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-13 Thread Chris Olsen
Thomas and All -- Mine is much the same story. Would there be some way to contribute $$$ (or, in my case, $$) to the team meaningfully? -- Chris - Original Message - From: Thomas Wolf To: John Mc Cc: Robert Erdt , bmelen...@hemstech.com, Geertjan Wielenga , Emilian Bold , Paul

Re: 11.3 - Can't use "Package As" with Ant project any more

2020-03-10 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, All -- Regarding the Java 14 packaging tool, I see a phrase something like "FX-specific" things will not be supported. I am not sure what this means. Does it mean that no FX features are supported, or only a few and we're not saying which, or ??? And if FX is not supported in

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Chris Olsen
Paul (and All) -- As they say, "I feel your pain!" The removal of FX was a pain in the behind for me also, and I am also moving over to Maven from Ant. I am a complete amateur (though experienced, Java is about my 5th language.) Much of the more technical discussions among Java

Re: No /src/main/resources generated

2020-03-07 Thread Chris Olsen
take a look in the Favorites window to see what your folder structure looks like on disk. Gj On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 at 17:47, Chris Olsen wrote: > Geertjan -- > >Thank you very much for your lightning reply! > >I am a veteran (but amateur) FX person, and thus am ashamed to

Re: No /src/main/resources generated

2020-03-07 Thread Chris Olsen
o be out of my reach. I think there must be something obvious that I am missing. -- Chris - Original Message - From: Geertjan Wielenga To: Chris Olsen Cc: users@netbeans.apache.org Sent: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 11:23:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: No /src/main/resources generated Just create it m

No /src/main/resources generated

2020-03-07 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone -- In anticipation of impending Java 14 I have downloaded AdoptOpen version of Java 13, Netbeans 11.3 (Thank you for all your work!!), and the FX stuff at openjfx.io. I am also starting out moving from Ant to Maven. (All this together is a big step for me, but I have two

Re: Newbie to Netbeans/Maven -- best solution?

2020-01-04 Thread Chris Olsen
Zahid and All -- Works like a charm! Thank you yet again... -- Chris - Original Message - From: zahid To: Chris Olsen , users Sent: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 12:09:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Newbie to Netbeans/Maven -- best solution? There are three tabs you should  see on the left

Newbie to Netbeans/Maven -- best solution?

2020-01-03 Thread Chris Olsen
Good morning, All -- Thanks to Geertjan and Zahid for assistance in re my missing JavaFX runtime I have solved that problem, and in my later thrashing about uncovered a solution to a different problem that I'm not sure is the best solution. In my (migrating from Java 8) program I have

Re: Newbie to Maven problem -- JavaFX runtime components missing

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Olsen
Zahid and All -- Thank you! I now have had some success, and things are looking up. I think I need to study some existing working pom files, and this will be very helpful! -- Chris - Original Message - From: zahid To: Geertjan Wielenga , Chris Olsen Cc: users Sent: Wed, 01 Jan

Re: Newbie to Maven problem -- JavaFX runtime components missing

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Olsen
Hi, Geertjan-- > There’s a colon in there, at least. Hah! Got it! I had not seen the colon (ancient eyes), and I also noticed in your Youtube , properties (exec.args, exec.executable) that Netbeans had not generated for me .(Should it have?) Thank you once again!I think I'm

Re: Newbie to Maven problem -- JavaFX runtime components missing

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Olsen
Hi, again (and thanks again for lightning!) -- > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8xaRwqcKPSI I did that (and remembered that I had watched this previously with the same result as follows). I am now getting a message,... Unknown lifecycle phase "javafx".. You must...or a goal in the

Re: Newbie to Maven problem -- JavaFX runtime components missing

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Olsen
"FXML JavaFX Maven Archetype (Gluon) and same w/o the FXML. -- Chris - Original Message - From: Geertjan Wielenga To: Chris Olsen Cc: users Sent: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 15:35:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Newbie to Maven problem -- JavaFX runtime components missing Go to the

Newbie to Maven problem -- JavaFX runtime components missing

2020-01-01 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone and Happy New Year -- I am trying to write a simple starter HelloFX program, and running into an odd problem. I am running with Netbeans 11.2, jdk-13.0.1, javafx-sdk-11, apache-maven-3.6.3 on a Windows 10 machine, and have not altered anything that Netbeans gives me

Re: deployable javafx app

2019-12-02 Thread Chris Olsen
Hello, Everyone -- I have a (possibly) related question. I am also writing JavaFX programs and I am thinking of moving from Ant to Maven (and Java 8 to Java ??). Is there a good resource about Maven that non-developers would benefit from? Java is about my 5th language so I'm OK with

Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Chris Olsen
Jack and All -- I fear that my jpackage question of a few days ago unintentionally ignited something of a contentious discussion, for which I must apologize! I beat Jack by 5 years having been in this game (as a hobby mostly) for about 45 years. I agree with Jack's sentiments below --

Re: Hopefully close to the finish line with Java 11 & FX

2019-09-27 Thread Chris Olsen
the harried and distraught _amateur_ programmer? Thank you in advance! -- Chris - Original Message - From: Scott Palmer To: Chris Olsen Cc: users@netbeans.apache.org Sent: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:29:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Hopefully close to the finish line with Java 11 & FX Th

Hopefully close to the finish line with Java 11 & FX

2019-09-24 Thread Chris Olsen
output below. Any ideas of what and where to look for solutions and/or suggestions for how to proceed are very welcome! I'm running this on Windows 7, but my Windows 10 laptop gives the same "invalid target release" message. Thanks in advance... -- Chris Olsen ---

Re: JavaFX deployment library not found in active JDK

2019-09-19 Thread Chris Olsen
Hi, Chris -- Thank you! I will try to follow this model as I move into Maven. -- Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org

Re: JavaFX deployment library not found in active JDK

2019-09-17 Thread Chris Olsen
te OpenJavaFX), but with target Java version 8 (which contains its own JavaFX8), so there is a conflict ... (so e.g. inside NetBeans see: Project Properties > Sources > Source/Binary Format and try to use JDK11 as target) bm On 17.09.19 00:39, Chris Olsen wrote: > Hello, Everyone -- > &g

JavaFX deployment library not found in active JDK

2019-09-16 Thread Chris Olsen
om the command line, but since my Unix/Linux/DOS looms small in my rear view mirrow, I want Apache Netbeans to do all this for me. Might someone unravel what the problem might be, and where I might go to seek a solution? Thank you in advanc

Re: Are installers planned for Netbeans 10+

2019-02-27 Thread Chris Olsen
installation wizard is a wonderful thing to have available. Apologies for the length -- thank you and the rest of the Community for all the given and future help. -- Chris Olsen Grinnell College - Original Message - From: Geertjan Wielenga To: Gary Greenberg Cc: users@netbe