Dear Geertjan, Thanks. But it seems to me that you edited the .java file. The issue is that the part that you edited is auto-generated by NB from the form designer, and is not under the programmer's control.
So when I recompile, the old bug will return. I use "will" here as I'm still trying to work out how to merge your update into my local repository. GitHub doesn't have the most intuitive of user interfaces and I'm a complete newbie with it. Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Friday, July 19, 2019, 1:33:25 PM, you wrote: https://github.com/geertjanw/TestCharacters4.git Try check out the above and run it -- you should see your special characters without needing to do anything. Gj On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:28 PM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: 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 www.ptoye.com
