Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Zahid Rahman
https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2020/03/new-features-between-java-8-and-java-14.html On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, 19:43 Ty Young, wrote: > > On 3/9/20 1:08 PM, Neil C Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 15:16, Paul Szudzik > wrote: > >> I see streams of notes that are asking questions about > comp

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Ty Young
On 3/9/20 1:08 PM, Neil C Smith wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 15:16, Paul Szudzik wrote: I see streams of notes that are asking questions about compatibility. ( The latest straw is the Ant image ... ) I see how once the major players in NetBeans get on a wagon, the trail off is almost

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Don
I agree.  I have been using NetBeans since it was called Forte and both it and Java were owned and managed by Sun.  I think I was up to version 8.2 when management switched to Apache and a LOT of things changed.  At the same time, almost all of the Swing apps I had produced with earlier version

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Neil C Smith
On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 17:58, Judi Rastall wrote: > Trying to run from the CMD prompt, I see this error message: > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException > at javax.swing.ImageIcon.(Unknown Source) ... > Why will a program that runs perfectly well within the IDE fail to r

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Neil C Smith
On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 15:16, Paul Szudzik wrote: > I see streams of notes that are asking questions about compatibility. ( > The latest straw is the Ant image ... ) I see how once the major players in > NetBeans get on a wagon, the trail off is almost impossible. If you’re new > to NetBe

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
We'd be happy to help. Maybe one way would be to work on the code together, i.e., if you have/create an account (assuming you don't have one yet) on GitHub ( https://github.com/) and then put your whole application there, others (me for sure) will be happy to take a look at it. Gj On Mon, Mar 9,

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Judi Rastall
Maybe I'm trying to run before I can walk but I have set myself the target of rewriting a program I've inherited in Delphi into Java because I want to offer the program to run on any platform. So far I have written a splash screen with two buttons - Go and Quit. This then loads a menu bar which

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Alonso Del Arte
For what it's worth, I've had problems switching from 8 to 11, too. But they've been minor glitches. But I barely know JavaFX and I don't use it at all, I've been quite satisfied with AWT/Swing for my purposes. I've used Eclipse and found it lacking. IntelliJ's good, but I don't need an IDE to auto

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Chuck Davis
Paul, many of us "feel your pain" with what Oracle did to JavaFX. But all is not lost. Take a look here: http://netbeans.apache.org/kb/docs/java/ Scroll down to the JavaFX section and click on the first item. You will see how completely easy it is to develop JavaFX with Netbeans and Maven. Of

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Give us some idea of what the problems are, and maybe we can help? Gj On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:07 PM Judi Rastall wrote: > I have to admit I'm on the point of giving up with Netbeans 11. Programs > that used to compile quite happily with V8 no longer compile. I am using > images in a subdirecto

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Judi Rastall
I have to admit I'm on the point of giving up with Netbeans 11. Programs that used to compile quite happily with V8 no longer compile. I am using images in a subdirectory and the V11 compiler cannot find them so I get null exceptions and it sulks. Judi On 09/03/2020 15:52, Chris Olsen wrote:

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Chris Olsen
Paul (and All) -- As they say, "I feel your pain!" The removal of FX was a pain in the behind for me also, and I am also moving over to Maven from Ant. I am a complete amateur (though experienced, Java is about my 5th language.) Much of the more technical discussions among Java develop

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Indeed, I think the approach Emilian suggests is the way to go. And, indeed, if you don't want to or have the time to move to Maven of Gradle, then a lot of modern options start closing off to you. But, on a different level, for a lot of users of NetBeans, the chickens have come home to roost: a f

Re: Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Emilian Bold
Go and pick Azul Zulu' JDK FX package which comes bundles with JavaFX: https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?&architecture=x86-64-bit&package=jdk-fx I used it for an older Platform app where I don't feel like configuring the FX mumbo jumbo. I doubt anybody can make a magic transition too

Statement of disappointment

2020-03-09 Thread Paul Szudzik
I have been a NetBeans user since inception. I am retired now, but when I worked, I was one of the few people in my company that was an advocate of NetBeans, and used it instead of the company line, Eclipse product. Retired now for 10+ years, I used NetBeans to develop my products, and

Re: 11.3 - Can't use "Package As" with Ant project any more

2020-03-09 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Maybe it will still work if you run NetBeans itself on JDK 8. Gj On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 11:54, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > I found it very convenient to use the "Package as Image Only" feature in > the past. > > I have an old Ant-based project where this used to work, but when I tried > it with the

11.3 - Can't use "Package As" with Ant project any more

2020-03-09 Thread Thomas Kellerer
I found it very convenient to use the "Package as Image Only" feature in the past. I have an old Ant-based project where this used to work, but when I tried it with the latest NetBeans 11.3, it fails because NetBeans tries to use some JavaFX classes. The error message I get when invoking "Pack

Re: Image Previewing

2020-03-09 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/ide/image Gj On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 08:13, Peter Steele wrote: > Netbeans has a useful feature for previewing images (you just double click > and it opens a window with the image in), I can view bmp and png images as > an example. Not all image form

Image Previewing

2020-03-09 Thread Peter Steele
Netbeans has a useful feature for previewing images (you just double click and it opens a window with the image in), I can view bmp and png images as an example. Not all image formats that I use are preview able though. Can someone help point me in to the right direction as to how I can add support