Here you go.

-----Original Message-----
From: Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> 
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:17 PM
To: Walter Oney <walter.o...@oneylaw.com>
Cc: Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org>; NetBeans Mailing List 
<users@netbeans.apache.org>
Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

Cab you go to Help | About in Apache NetBeans 11.1 and copy what you see there 
and paste it here and send it so we can really see what the environment is that 
you're making use of?

Gj

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 7:12 PM Walter Oney <walter.o...@oneylaw.com 
<mailto:walter.o...@oneylaw.com> > wrote:


        I'm doing this particular project on Windows 10. By "installing" I mean 
running the .exe (if there is one) from a web site or downloading a JAR file 
and putting it some place where I can find it.
        
        I keep having private conversations with Geertjan without meaning to -- 
from long habit, I hardly ever hit reply-all. Anyhow, he wondered what version 
of the JDK I was using. Initially, I think I had 11.0 or 11.1. Then I decided 
to get the latest and greatest, so I uninstalled that and installed 13 without 
realizing it didn't come with JavaFX (which I need for the graphics). I'm back 
to 11.1 now, which I downloaded from Oracle. It appears not to have JavaFX 
built-in like Oracle says it should. 
        
        I'm grateful that you guys are working on a Saturday and trying to help 
a newbie out.
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org 
<mailto:neilcsm...@apache.org> > 
        Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 11:37 AM
        To: Walter Oney <walter.o...@oneylaw.com 
<mailto:walter.o...@oneylaw.com> >
        Cc: NetBeans Mailing List <users@netbeans.apache.org 
<mailto:users@netbeans.apache.org> >
        Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform 
independence
        
        On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 12:04, Walter Oney <walter.o...@oneylaw.com 
<mailto:walter.o...@oneylaw.com> > wrote:
        > My current self-assigned task is to port the app to Linux in the hope 
that I’ll find more robust WiFi support than Win10 has. I was hopping along as 
a happy little bunny with NetBeans 8.4 and some version or another of the JDK 
that included JavaFX. I was misled by the incomplete instructions for 
installing JNA to omit downloading jna.jar. Someone later corrected my mistake 
on the stackoverflow forum, but not before I had installed JDK 13, a current 
release of OpenJFX, and NetBeans 11.1. I ended up in Version Hell, which is 
where you go when you have mismatched versions of your tools. I don’t even know 
what the path back might be.
        
        My first thought is are you doing this on the Linux machine you talk
        about or still on Windows 10?  If Linux, which OS?  And what exactly
        do you mean by "installing"?  Some of the things you mention there
        should probably be part of your project but not installed.  Relying on
        Linux packages for anything other than perhaps OpenJDK is very hit and
        miss!
        
        Best wishes,
        
        Neil
        
        

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