Hello
I'm returning to NetBeans after a long bap, and have forgotten almost everything I know, so please be indulgent.
I'm trying to work out how to organise the workflow for developing a program - I suspect it's changed since I was last here.
What I can't work out is how to separate the dev
Dear Brenden,
Well, on my machine (Windows 10 Home 64-bit) I don't have write access to the
directory of the file, but Admin does.
I assume you've looked at the effective permissions part of the file properties
to check.
Best regards,
Peter
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Dear Brenden,
You have to run Wordpad (or whatever editor you're using) as an administrator.
And don't forget to save a copy first!
Best regards,
Peter
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www.ptoye.com
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Monday, December 7, 2020, 5:20:47 PM, you wrote:
> I have a brand new 12.2
1:50:19 AM, you wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 11:46, Peter Toye wrote:
>> But when I ask NB to check for updates it tells me that 'your IDE is up to
>> date!' which is obviously not the case.
>>
>> Anyone any idea what's going on?
> Actually, expect
I'm rejoining the NB community after a year of not doing any Java work.
Started up NB (version 11.1) and immediately got an 'unexpected exception'
error, which I've reported to JIRA.
But when I ask NB to check for updates it tells me that 'your IDE is up to
date!' which is obviously not the cas
so I can continue work. Thanks again.
Best regards,
Peter
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www.ptoye.com
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Thursday, October 31, 2019, 5:05:02 PM, you wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 16:53, Peter Toye
> wrote:
>> Thanks a million. That did the trick.
> Great!
>
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 11:59:34 AM, you wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 11:46, Peter Toye
> wrote:
>> You should get an error message saying the file is corrupt. If you don't,
>> your system is different from mine.
> Yep! Probably because it is.
ile is corrupt. If you don't, your
system is different from mine.
Best regards,
Peter
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 3:33:49 PM, you wrote:
Unless we can reproduce it or get a stack trace, you?ll get no responses.
Gj
On Wed
source/binary format.
I'm using NetBeans 11.1 with AdoptOpen JDK 11
So I don't even get as far as you.
FYI: I'm pretty sure Geertjan said no zips please.
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Cheers,
Slim
On 2019-10-23 11:32, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I'm not sure what you mean by a "Stack trace&quo
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 3:33:49 PM, you wrote:
Unless we can reproduce it or get a stack trace, you’ll get no responses.
Gj
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 16:09, Peter Toye wrote:
More information on this. When I open the .java file in a text editor, the
editor-fold lines have
More information on this. When I open the .java file in a text editor, the
editor-fold lines have extra information
// //GEN-BEGIN:initComponents
and
} // //GEN-END:initComponents
But these don't appear when I look at the file in NetBeans. I've done the same
for a very simple project which
Another issue moving from NB 8 to 11.1
I moved a Java with Ant project from NB version 8 to 11.1, and everything
seemed fine until I decided to modify a form within the project. I got an error
message saying that the GUI builder couldn't find the generated code. The
message directed me to the w
to support both GNU
style and POSIX style arguments with both alternatives for most things.
From running "java --help", I learn that
--module will do the same as -m
and
-p is an alternative to --module-path
On 10/21/19 5:56 AM, Peter Toye wrote:
Re: Java project now needs classpaths to
ope the above investigation makes you happy. :-)
Gj
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 4:07 PM Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
It is copied and pasted from there.
Gj
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 16:06, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Fine. I agree. A shame that OpenJDK don't put this on the mailing list
able to write to that mailing list
apparently without a problem.
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Go to the above and sign up, ignoring this topic on mailing lists now.
Gj
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 15:48, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I wasn't expecting you to,
1 Oct 2019 at 13:54, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Agreed - but the address they give is the one that's auto-rejected!
Best regards,
Peter
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www.ptoye.com
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Monday, October 21, 2019, 11:35:13 AM, you wrote:
You’ll need to subscribe to th
.
Gj
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 12:31, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Thanks. I wrote to the mailing list address and got the following answer:
You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has
been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are
being rej
October 21, 2019, 10:59:35 AM, you wrote:
File an issue with steps, and we can investigate and see where to fix that
output.
If it still gives problems, can you say what those problems are, or how can we
help?
Gj
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 11:56, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Thanks again.
njdk
mailing lists and explain the problems you're having running java on the
command line -- they need to know that otherwise they'll never hear from you
and never make it work the way you'd like.
Gj
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 8:10 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
OK, I&
link on the OpenJDK site.
Best regards,
Peter
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www.ptoye.com
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Monday, October 14, 2019, 10:18:27 AM, you wrote:
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:16 AM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I agree that the "java" command has nothing to do with N
n Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:16 AM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I agree that the "java" command has nothing to do with Netbeans. I'll try to be
more explicit:
I have a project which dates back to about 2006 and has a main class which I'll
call A. This uses a separate
o be talking about the “java” command line below, which has nothing
at all to do with NetBeans. You seen to be using different versions of Java.
Gj
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 16:44, Peter Toye wrote:
Having just moved from NB version 8 to 11.1 there seems to have been a change
in the command line n
Dear Geertjan,
I see what you mean!
Best regards,
Peter
mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com
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Monday, October 7, 2019, 12:06:23 PM, you wrote:
The mailing list is the forum.
Gj
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:05 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I don't thin
ly on our forum, right now.
Gj
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 12:41 PM Peter Toye wrote:
I'm having problems contacting your website.
http://www.netbeans.org/community/index.html is timing out.
https://forums.netbeans.org/ is giving a security violation:
An error occurred during a connection to
Sorry - I just realised that my address book is out of date and has the old
Oracle addresses.
Regards,
Peter
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www.ptoye.com
I'm having problems contacting your website.
http://www.netbeans.org/community/index.html is timing out.
https://forums.netbeans.org/ is giving a security violation:
An error occurred during a connection to forums.netbeans.org.
PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR
The page you are trying to view canno
Having just moved from NB version 8 to 11.1 there seems to have been a change
in the command line needed to run a project.
The OS is Windows 7 Home.
The project has two external libraries: one in the Java modules in the NetBeans
11 directory, and one of my own. In version 8 it was possible to r
Having just moved from NB version 8 to 11.1 there seems to have been a change
in the command line needed to run a project.
The OS is Windows 7 Home.
The project has two external libraries: one in the Java modules in the NetBeans
11 directory, and one of my own. In version 8 it was possible to r
In a JLayeredPane inheriting from JComponent a call of add(component, new
Integer(LEVEL)) is deprecated and changed to
add(component, LEVEL)
However, these have different meanings as JComponent has two overrides of the
add method, one taking an integer as the second parameter and one taking an
Dear Neil,
Sorry, no. Still "Cannot perform Javadoc here". But shift-F1 works OK (as it
did before).
Best regards,
Peter
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 11:57:11 AM, you wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 11:38, Peter
Dear Thomas,
I have a similar problem, but with the Oracle JDK. I specify the Javadoc index
as
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/12/docs/api/
Also using NB 11.1 on Windows. Maybe Alt-F1 is broken in 11.1??
Best regards,
Peter
mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com
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generated by the GUI Builder, should never be touched or changed, and even
the idea of looking at Form file is a bad idea.
Gj
On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 16:30, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
Peter Toye schrieb am 03.08.2019 um 14:19:
> When investigating an issue, I found that the Files tab doesn'
something wrong. It
is generated by the GUI Builder, should never be touched or changed, and even
the idea of looking at Form file is a bad idea.
Gj
On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 16:30, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
Peter Toye schrieb am 03.08.2019 um 14:19:
> When investigating an issue, I found tha
m
www.ptoye.com
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Saturday, August 3, 2019, 3:29:36 PM, you wrote:
> Peter Toye schrieb am 03.08.2019 um 14:19:
>> When investigating an issue, I found that the Files tab doesn't show
>> the .form files generated by the form editor. Is this on purpose, as
&g
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Saturday, August 3, 2019, 2:28:05 PM, you wrote:
You’re not supposed to be editing the form files at all. That’s why you can’t
see them. If you ever find yourself editing form files, you’re definitely doing
something wrong.
Gj
On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 14:19, Peter Toye wrote:
When i
When investigating an issue, I found that the Files tab doesn't show the .form
files generated by the form editor. Is this on purpose, as it's a bit confusing?
It's possibly a hangover from the Oracle days, as it also happens in NB version
8.
Regards,
Peter
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www.ptoy
s two-fold: a) NetBeans should complain while saving files
which contain characters that cannot be represented in the current encoding; b)
form editor should avoid putting such characters into the source code.
Jan
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:09 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Sorry - hit "reply"
e question marks directly in
GitHub to the special characters.
Gj
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 10:58, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
The problem was "solved" in that there is a workaround long before I posted it
- I simply put setText calls into the constructor.
The reason I posted the
Dear Geertjan,
The problem was "solved" in that there is a workaround long before I posted it
- I simply put setText calls into the constructor.
The reason I posted the problem here was to determine if it was actually a NB
issue, or something to do with my configuration. Jan Lahoda's comment i
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Friday, July 19, 2019, 4:47:07 PM, you wrote:
My comment does more than imply: it directly states these words -- "edited this
file directly in GitHub"
Gj
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 5:35 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I see. But in the IDE, the initCompone
acters, then created a pull request
against my own repo and merged it:
https://github.com/geertjanw/TestCharacters4/blob/master/src/com/ptoye/TestKiller/OuterPane.java
Gj
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 5:08 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Thanks - it runs fine. So what exactly did you do as I c
. Type: git clone https://github.com/geertjanw/TestCharacters4.git
3. Open and run the result from NetBeans.
It will work out of the box, at least it does for me. Will you try it and then,
after that, write back?
Gj
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:52 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Thanks. But it
you're currently doing. If
plan A doesn't work, try plan B.
Gj
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:07 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Errr No!
I don’t want to delete the button - it's part of the UI.
What I don't understand is how deleting button X changes the text in button
haracters4/pull/1
Gj
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:28 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
You didn't answer my last emails, and I’ve been away for a few days.
Have a look at https://github.com/ptoye/TestCharacters4 - I hope you can access
it but I'm not sure about the privacy settings o
olve a specific problem.
Gj
On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 17:19, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Oh dear, I was wrong. The problem came back today, even without the offending
file in the directory.Shall I try to cut down the program to a manageable size
before posting it, or would you like the lot
Dear Geertjan,
I've managed to reduce the project to a reasonable level. But I've not used
Github before as a repository, only to comment on Microsoft's documentation,
and I'm having a lot of trouble in getting my file onto it.
I created a repository (private - is that correct?) but when I tell
57 PM, you wrote:
Make as small a sample as possible that reproduces the problem and put it on
GitHub — that will always be the approach to take, no one will ever want ‘the
lot’ to solve a specific problem.
Gj
On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 at 17:19, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Oh dear, I was
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Friday, July 12, 2019, 4:25:35 PM, you wrote:
You’re always going to have the same response — put the code somewhere so that
someone can look at it and/or provide clear step by step instructions to
reproduce the problem.
Gj
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 17:15, Peter Toye wrote:
To
s,
Peter
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Friday, July 12, 2019, 4:25:35 PM, you wrote:
You’re always going to have the same response — put the code somewhere so that
someone can look at it and/or provide clear step by step instructions to
reproduce the problem.
Gj
On Fr
To continue with this (as I've not had any feedback) the .form file seems to
contain the correct character:
THIS IS CORRECT!
So there's
I modified a button to display a character rather than a GIF icon. The
character is a symbol - from the Unicode arrows set \x219x. It displays OK in
the Design (and also Preview) panes (see Fonts1.png) but when the program is
run it displays as a question mark. And if I look at the generated cod
,
then change to that platform in the project settings.
In order to solve the original issue we would need real logs. Just execute the
ant build in debug mode, then send the debug output. I'm sorry, but screenshot
won't help in this case.
On 7/4/19 3:11 AM, Peter Toye wrote:
Re: ...an
:25 PM Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
Your application consists of two Java source files?
Gj
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 12:52 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Here's the output from a clean build.
ant -f D:\\Peter\\Netbeans\\KillerSudoku11 -Dnb.internal.action.name=rebuild
clean jar
init:
Can you do this: copy and paste the build error message into the response to
this e-mail and then press Send?
Gj
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 12:32, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Both javac.source and javac.target are set to 12. If I change the source/target
to 8 they change accordingly. Se
n 7/1/19 1:57 AM, Peter Toye wrote:
...and now I can't build
I made a copy of a project in NB 8 and opened it in NB 11. Got some errors
which were resolved OK.
But it won't build - I get a warning and 2 errors:
warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -sour
57 AM, Peter Toye wrote:
...and now I can't build
I made a copy of a project in NB 8 and opened it in NB 11. Got some errors
which were resolved OK.
But it won't build - I get a warning and 2 errors:
warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 6
??error: Sou
error messages, steps to reproduce, some
clues from your end.
Gj
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 11:36, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I was referring to the track called ' ...and now I can't build' which you've
been helping me with. That problem remains in 11.1.
Best regards,
Peter
wrote:
How can we help with this. I mean, what does this problem description mean.
Gj
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 19:47, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Thanks for the link. I tried it out and NB 11.1 runs without needing admin
permission. If there are any glitches with the beta I'll send fee
y/NETBEANS/Apache+NetBeans+11.1
Gj
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:02 AM Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
Or you can unzip the ZIP file and run the executable to start NetBeans like
that, instead of installing it via an installer.
Gj
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 6:58 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
Yes...
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Monday, July 1, 2019, 12:03:28 PM, you wrote:
I can very clearly see Source/Binary Format in your screenshot in the Sources
tab.
Gj
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 13:01, Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
I think we're at cross-purposes here. My P
k in the Files window, in the 'nbproject' folder, to find
'project.properties' file.
Gj
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:57 AM Peter Toye wrote:
Dear Geertjan,
To answer both your posts:
I can't see any project option which corresponds to "source" or "target&
? What,
exactly?
Gj
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:58 AM Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
Look in the Project Properties of your project (right-click it in the Projects
window and choose Properties).
Gj
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:57 AM Peter Toye wrote:
I made a copy of a project in NB 8 and opened it in NB
I made a copy of a project in NB 8 and opened it in NB 11. Got some errors
which were resolved OK.
But it won't build - I get a warning and 2 errors:
warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 6
error: Source option 6 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.
err
m
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Sunday, June 30, 2019, 5:03:05 PM, you wrote:
So just run it.
Gj
On Sunday, June 30, 2019, Peter Toye wrote:
Having installed NB11 by unzipping the downloaded files, Windows keeps telling
me that it's not digitally signed and whether I want to run it. This
Having installed NB11 by unzipping the downloaded files, Windows keeps telling
me that it's not digitally signed and whether I want to run it. This didn't
happen with previous installations, presumably because the digital signing was
handled automatically. I've downloaded the KEYS file, but I ha
solve.
Not sure off hand re javadoc, I know there's a PR about this:
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1299
Gj
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:41 PM Peter Toye wrote:
Having just installed NB 11, there seem to be bits missing:
1) There's no help system - just the online docs &
Having just installed NB 11, there seem to be bits missing:
1) There's no help system - just the online docs & support. Is this intentional?
2) (This one may be a Java issue not a Netbeans one.) I can't find the Javadoc
for the Java 12 API. I tried setting the Javadoc URL to
https://docs.oracle
Thanks Glenn for the comments.
I was getting an intermittent notification that there was a missing hamcrest
library, but without doing anything about it the messages seem to have
disappeared. My code certainly doesn't use hamcrest directly, but there may be
some assertion that is translated int
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 4:01:30 PM, you wrote:
You’re going to need to define what “Swing projects” are. Swing is supported
out of the box, NetBeans Platform applications too, which are Swing projects,
too.
Gj
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 16:59, Peter Toye wrote:
Hav
Having recently decided to modify an ancient Java program I installed NB
version 11, but there doesn't seem to be any support for Swing projects in it.
Do I have to convert to JavaFX (which I'd first have to learn)? Or is it easier
just to continue with Netbeans version 8?
Thanks in advance,
Thanks Geertjan and Emilio.
I've downloaded and unpacked, but there was a bug found when I started it up
again - I've reported that to JIRA.
But also, trying to open the project it says:
Problem: The project uses a class library called "swing-layout", but
this class library was not foun
I've not used NetBeans for some time, but probably want to start using it
again. But a lot had happened since then: Apache has taken over from Oracle,
and my old version (8.0.2) is way out of date.
Is there an easy way to upgrade from that version to the latest stable one
(whichever that is) an
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