Dear Neil, Thanks a million. That did the trick.
I had no idea what the GUI editor was looking for, and for some reason the NB editor suppresses the GEN-BEGIN/END comments, so it's not so easy to work out by looking at the text. I'd worked out the bit round the initcomponents method, but not the variables. I suspect that the conversion from NB 8 to 11 has some bugs in this area - it probably doesn't add the comments in properly. But now I don't have a working NB 8 so can't test it out. Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Thursday, October 31, 2019, 11:59:34 AM, you wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 11:46, Peter Toye > <netbe...@ptoye.com> wrote: >> You should get an error message saying the file is corrupt. If you don't, >> your system is different from mine. > Yep! Probably because it is. Open the > OuterPane.java file in a text > editor outside NetBeans and make sure the comments around the > variables section are > // Variables declaration - do not > modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables > private javax.swing.ButtonGroup bgColours; > .... > // End of variables > declaration//GEN-END:variables > And in the project properties, remove all external libraries. > Opens fine for me then. > Best wishes, > Neil > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: > users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
