The problem appears to be that when you check in or check out from GitHub, those special characters become question marks -- probably not best to use those special characters to begin with.
To solve the 'swing-layout not found problem' in your project, right-click it, choose Properties, go to the Libraries tab, and remove the reference to swing-layout, which you don't need and are not using in your project. Gj On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:09 PM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > I've checked in the changes you need as a pull request, once you integrate > the pull request, you will not have question marks. The question marks > where in your repo, they will not be there anymore after you accept my pull > request. > > At this point, you've spent about two weeks working on this problem -- > maybe you should make images of what you'd like to have on those buttons > and then attach those images to the buttons instead of what 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 <netbe...@ptoye.com> 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 >> 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 <netbe...@ptoye.com> >> www.ptoye.com >> >
