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 buttons A,B and C (if you see what I mean). That's surely a bug in NB, somewhere when it translates the data in the .form file into the Java code for initComponents(). Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Friday, July 19, 2019, 12:42:14 PM, you wrote: I just followed your steps now and am now at the end where you say: "Go back to the OuterPane design and delete the leftmost button (undo). Compile and run again. The question marks have disappeared and the arrows/square are there!" So, the problem is fixed, i.e., your code is working in the end in the way you'd like it to be. And here is your pull request: https://github.com/ptoye/TestCharacters4/pull/1 Gj On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:28 PM Peter Toye <netbe...@ptoye.com> 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 on GitHub. There's a README file to tell you what to do. Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Saturday, July 13, 2019, 4:28:57 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 <netbe...@ptoye.com> 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? Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- 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 <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 www.ptoye.com