Start Netbeans with:
-J-Dnetbeans.projects.dir=<whatever you want>
you can add that option into your etc/netbeans.conf as well
On 2/20/20 6:59 AM, Mark Eggers wrote:
I don't really understand why you described a disk crash, recovery, and
then said that the default project folder wasn't to your liking / wasn't
easy to change.
Instead, how about the following:
I would like to change the default location of where File->New Project
creates projects. I didn't find an easy or effective way to do this. Is
there one?
Can we have a start-up switch (somewhat like Eclipse) that allows us to
chose a base project location? Or maybe a GUI in Tools->Options that
allows us to set it easily? I will be happy to discuss my use case on
the mailing list. Thanks.
Is the above an accurate description of your issue? If it is, that
sounds like a simple (and possibly reasonable) request.
Personally, I don't mind browsing around to a different location during
project creation. Since I store different clusters of projects in
different parent directories, browsing around to open projects is part
of my normal work flow. YMMV
. . . just my two cents.
/mde/
On 2/19/2020 9:22 PM, cryptearth wrote:
TBH I didn'T read all of your reply, but from the first few lines I did
read: no, you got me wrong.
My question is as simple as that: Is it possible, and if so: How?, to
change the default project folder where new projects supposed to get
created on disk? I didn't found any setting in whatever the GUI gives me
(as someone else on this list a few ago said: "Netbeans is basically a
graphical wrapper around maven.") and I didn't found any config file.
The one mentioned on many search results on the net doesn'T seem to have
an effect either, and the other user replied to my question seem to
didn't got my question at all and pointed me to a file wich has nothing
to do with per-user settings at all.
Yes, Netbeans has many flaws - and obvious a lot of them exists since
15(!) years (I found a bug report wich evolved into a discusion from
back late 2004 about this very topic). Is it really that much to ask
just for a simple input dialog right at the first time start up where
the user wants his default project location to be? And is it that hard
to at least somewhat follow the style many graphical programms followed
for the past three decades where you have a menu bar, starting with
File, then Edit, then maybe some more, and end with Extras and Help -
and to just put an "options" or "settings" into one of those - and offer
the same settings dialog as mentioned before? How old is Netbeans? 15+
years? And it's menus are that - sorry to say it this directly:
immature? It's like an early not feature complete alpha where someone
couldn't decide just where to put it.
Back to modern days: Java 11 doesn't allow compiling for Java 5 any
more. It's a simple if() just to check for the version of the compiler -
and if it's 11 or above set the minimum target compiling level to at
least 6 and disable any lower versions. C'mon - don't tell me 100s of
devs could get this done in the time this exists.
All made fun about me cause I'm using just a simple editor with some
basic syntax highlight and a terminal to compile. If I see what a mess
and overhead all this fancy IDEs and build-tools costs - wich in fact
they're supposed to do for the dev - not in addition to it - what's the
benefit of wasting time to figure out how to get around simplest fails
done in every beginners for dummies book?
I'm done with it - back to the old style - that at least did what I told
to do ..
Am 20.02.2020 um 03:45 schrieb Mark Eggers:
First of all, I'm just a happy NetBeans user.
Second of all, this is just my opinion.
So let me try to understand your problem first.
1. You crashed what appears to be a Windows data and programs disk
This is different than where your user profile is stored. I understand
this, since I do the same thing to minimize usage of a small OS SSD
drive.
2. You reinstalled NetBeans on a new disk
3. You recovered your NetBeans projects on a new disk
The problem is that the 'Recent Projects' list links to the wrong
location. I'm guessing that this is the case since either drive letters
have changed or directories have changed.
In addition, there may be a lot of issues with the cache.
The best solution is to:
1. Ignore the 'Recent Projects' list until you've opened 10 or more
projects
As Gj has pointed out, editing the projectui.properties file is not
something that should be done. I confess that I've done it, but it's not
trivial.
Just don't do it.
2. Before starting NetBeans, delete the cache directory.
In short, both will be rebuilt properly by NetBeans as you use the IDE.
As to your setting a target below 6 with JDK 11: - you can't. This is a
JDK limitation.
If you want to compile (and be proper) a J2EE 2.5 project, with source
and target set to 1.5 (in Maven parlance), then you have one option that
I can see.
a. Install JDK / JRE 8 along with JDK / JRE 11.
b. In Tools->Java Platforms, register the JDK 8 platform
c. In the project Properties->Build->Compile panel, configure the
project to use the registered JDK 8 Java Platform
I do this all the time, as I'm trying to get a company I consult for to
move from J2EE 2.5 / Tomcat 7 to servlet spec 4 and Tomcat 9.
I do this on Windows 10 Professional, with the last Oracle JRE / JDK 8
and AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.6 installed from the zip file.
The only time things get unpleasant is if I try to build a JDK 5 project
from the command line, since my default Java is 11.0.6.
. . . just my two cents
/mde/
On 2/19/2020 3:56 PM, cryptearth wrote:
I know at least someone will feel offended no matter how polite I try to
write my response, hence I try to just repeat the question instead of
responding to the reply (I guess someone who read carefully might notice
what I mean and try to avoid to say out loud):
Is there a way to (re-)set the default projects folder?
And why is it that almost any answer you get when you ask google about
this very topic points to file I mentioned?
Matt
Am 20.02.2020 um 00:23 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga:
Do not change that file, do not touch it.
The file you need, if what you want is define the JDK to use to start
NetBeans, is "etc/netbeans.conf" in the installation directory.
Gj
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:22 AM cryptearth <cryptea...@cryptearth.de
<mailto:cryptea...@cryptearth.de>> wrote:
Well, I wrote my mail to soon before even try it myself - as I
have to add: No matter what I put into the mentioned properties
file it doesn't change the default path NB uses. I also tried to
find it in other config files and even in the windows registry -
but had no luck. So, as manual edit a config file referred to on
many resulst found by google, and as there seem no option in the
GUI I can change - how do I change the default folder?
Matt
Am 20.02.2020 um 00:18 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga:
Np, you never need to edit "projectui.properties".
Gj
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:12 PM cryptearth
<cryptea...@cryptearth.de <mailto:cryptea...@cryptearth.de>>
wrote:
So, as I had to recover from a hard disk crash I had NB 11.2
set up
again but didn't got any dialog about default project folder.
As I got
through google this has to be done manual by editing the file
projectui.properties located in
userhome/appdata/roaming/netbeans/11.2/config/preferences/org/netbeans/modules.
I have found several topics as early as NB 6.x.
Two simple questions:
1) Why and why wasn't there any change since at least NB 6.x?
2) Is there any hidden way to change this via the GUI?
There're several other things the GUI doesn't handle as it
should, for
example allow setting target java version below 6 when a
compiler
version 11 or higher is used, as since v11 compiling is only
supported
down to v6 -> compile failure. Isn't an IDE supposed to give
a developer
some convenience? As far as I got into the overhead Netbeans
require I'm
not sure if it's the right IDE for me - but I couldn't get
Eclipse to
even launch properly, let alone set up a project.
Matt
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