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 <netbe...@ptoye.com> wrote: > To continue with this (as I've not had any feedback) the .form file seems > to contain the correct character: > > </Component> > <Component class="javax.swing.JButton" name="btnRow"> > <Properties> > <Property name="font" type="java.awt.Font" > editor="org.netbeans.beaninfo.editors.FontEditor"> > <Font name="SansSerif" size="12" style="0"/> > </Property> > <Property name="text" type="java.lang.String" > value="↔"/> THIS IS CORRECT! > <Property name="toolTipText" type="java.lang.String" > value="Confine selected squares to row"/> > <Property name="margin" type="java.awt.Insets" > editor="org.netbeans.beaninfo.editors.InsetsEditor"> > <Insets value="[2, 5, 2, 5]"/> > </Property> > </Properties> > > So there's something wrong in the translation from this and the generated > Java. > > Peter > mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com > www.ptoye.com > > ------------------------- > > Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 12:53:19 PM, you wrote: > > > 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 code, the question mark is there as well (see Fonts2.png). > > The character coding for the project is set to UTF-8, so there shouldn't > be any code conversion issues there. > > I've looked at the generated code with a hex editor and it's definitely a > "?", the problem isn't just the display font used for the file. > > The only slightly odd thing about the project is that it was imported from > NB version 8. > > I've tried generating a such simpler example from scratch, but this > displays OK. And the generated code has the correct UTF-8 encoding for the > character. > > Has anyone any idea what's going on? It seems to be something to do with > converting the form design to Java code, which I don't know anything about. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Peter > mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com <netbe...@ptoye.com> > www.ptoye.com >
