RE: JJazzLab : a music application based on the Netbeans Platform

2019-10-04 Thread Walter Oney
Done. Glad to help. -Original Message- From: Jerome Lelasseux Sent: Friday, October 4, 2019 5:49 PM To: NetBeans Mailing List Subject: JJazzLab : a music application based on the Netbeans Platform Dear Netbeans family, After many many (too many) evenings and week-ends spent learning a

RE: Apache 11.1 - build failed

2019-09-30 Thread Walter Oney
I think I accurately described my experience and my limitations. I think that's a point of view that should not be suppressed. -Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:23 AM To: Walter Oney Cc: Sterpu Victor ; users@netbeans.apache.org Subjec

RE: Apache 11.1 - build failed

2019-09-30 Thread Walter Oney
abandoning all thought of upgrading to more current releases. All of that said, there are very knowledgeable and helpful people hanging out on this list. If you decide to move ahead with your migration plans, you can rely on them to bail you out if you're patient enough to give them the h

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
ertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 2:10 PM To: Walter Oney Cc: Neil C Smith ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence The OpenJFX samples work out of the box. However, it appears your Java environment is misconfigu

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
al Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 2:21 PM To: Walter Oney Cc: Neil C Smith ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 8:14 PM Walter Oney mailto:walter.o...@oneylaw.com>

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
From: Scott Palmer Oracle does not state that JavaFX is included in Java 11. >From https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/overview/index.html: "As >of JDK 7u6 JavaFX is included with the standard JDK and JRE bundles. Please >download the JDK or JRE to use JavaFX." The link is to a do

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
From: Geertjan Wielenga > You're going to have to do better than this in terms of error reporting. I don't want to be on the leading edge here -- I just want to get back to developing my app. I got sidetracked by not knowing I needed JNA.JAR in addition to JNA-PLATFORM.JAR. But thanks all the

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
Still not working -- many error messages. How about I just revert to version 8-something of the JDK? -Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:52 PM To: Walter Oney Cc: Neil C Smith ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
I just noticed that you said to pick a "JavaFX" sample. Duh. I got a message to the effect that my JDK doesn't support JavaFX, so the wizard doesn't even build an app. -Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:41 PM To: Wal

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
HelloFXWithMaven -Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:41 PM To: Walter Oney Cc: Neil C Smith ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence What is the name of the sample that you

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
A follow-on: I *did* previously change the value of JAVA_HOME. I happened to check in a stale cmd window. -Original Message- From: Walter Oney Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:39 PM To: 'Geertjan Wielenga' Cc: 'Neil C Smith' ; 'NetBeans Mailing List'

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
\Java\jdk-11.0.4\bin, whereas JAVA_HOME is still pointing to jdk-13 even though I thought I previously changed it by hand.] Error: Could not find the Java SE Runtime Environment -Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:25 PM To: Walter Oney Cc: Nei

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
oy the hunt and (totally) appreciate the assistance and wisdom of the people on this list. -- Chris - Original Message - From: Jack Woehr To: Neil C Smith Cc: Walter Oney , NetBeans Mailing List Sent: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:14:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
Here you go. -Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:17 PM To: Walter Oney Cc: Neil C Smith ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence Cab you go to Help | About in Apache NetBeans

RE: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
r 28, 2019 11:37 AM To: Walter Oney Cc: NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 12:04, Walter Oney wrote: > My current self-assigned task is to port the app to Linux in the hope that > I’ll find more robus

A Bad Thing has happened to the promise of platform independence

2019-09-28 Thread Walter Oney
As a very experienced developer who is new to the world of Java, JavaFX, and NetBeans I have to share a lament about the current state of the tools. It should be possible for an untutored user to obtain a working development environment with trivial ease. It is not. Instead, one appears to have t

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
an Wielenga Cc: Walter Oney ; Giommarresi ing. Giovanni ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: FW: screenshot On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, 18:38 Geertjan Wielenga, mailto:geert...@apache.org> > wrote: That setting is set in etc/netbeans.conf in the installation dir but, again, if that i

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
is specific to Windows or not. Once the above is clarified, let’s file an issue to fix this. Gj On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 17:43, Giommarresi ing. Giovanni mailto:i...@studiogg.it> > wrote: Hi, same problem for me (Windows), no main class; I corrected the JVM path (as sug

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
al Message----- From: Walter Oney Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:32 AM To: 'Carl Mosca' ; 'Geertjan Wielenga' Cc: 'Neil C Smith' ; 'NetBeans Mailing List' Subject: RE: FW: screenshot From: Carl Mosca > I have always been impressed with how ext

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
From: Carl Mosca > I have always been impressed with how extensive the tests (and associated > instructions) are so I would not be surprised if the answer is yes. Given the age and pervasiveness of NetBeans, I would be surprised if the elementary thing I've attempted was *not* covered by a st

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
ly as > you can, including the names of everything, If the build system depends on renaming things from their defaults, then it is truly broken and not worth my effort to learn. I think we're done. -Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:3

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
Another difference: I don't get the same auto-complete behavior you did when you typed "main". Did you perhaps hit a shortcut key at that point? -Original Message----- From: Walter Oney Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:28 AM To: 'Geertjan Wielenga' Cc: &#x

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
Original Message- From: Geertjan Wielenga Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 5:45 AM To: Walter Oney Cc: Carl Mosca ; Neil C Smith ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: FW: screenshot Now can you try to reproduce the same problem with the Java Application (the first template, right a

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
I chose category "Java with Ant" and project "Java Application" -Original Message----- From: Walter Oney Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 5:22 AM To: 'Geertjan Wielenga' Cc: 'Carl Mosca' ; 'Neil C Smith' ; 'NetBeans Mailing Lis

RE: FW: screenshot

2019-09-21 Thread Walter Oney
> No, I don’t. Are you using ‘Java with Maven’ or ‘Java with Ant’? I must be missing something major. The screen shot plainly shows that I'm using Apache NetBeans 11.1 with Ant. Normally, I would think that I've done something wrong, because I learned sometime around 1965 that computers and well

RE: Problem using NetBeans on Ubuntu

2019-09-20 Thread Walter Oney
From: Carl Mosca > I am not sure about the file transfer part (Samba?) but given that it's > small, you might copy the contents from the Output window for the build. I e-mailed the output log to myself. Here it is, sans reasonable formatting: -Dnb.internal.action.name=build jar init: Deleting:

RE: Problem using NetBeans on Ubuntu

2019-09-20 Thread Walter Oney
From: Carl Mosca > How was the project generated? I am assuming it is a NetBeans ant project > based on the default names used. Yes. > Have you done a build? If so, is that successful? Can you provide the build > output. The build was uneventful. It's hard for me to get a file from my dua

RE: Problem using NetBeans on Ubuntu

2019-09-20 Thread Walter Oney
I installed from netbeans.apache.org, and I'm now able to build Java and C++ programs (after installing the C++ plugin, that is). Thanks to the help I got on this list. Now for the next problem: the Java program I generate using Netbeans 11.1 appears fine, but it won't run because it claims tha

RE: Problem using NetBeans on Ubuntu

2019-09-20 Thread Walter Oney
Thank you! -Original Message- From: Jose Ch Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 6:31 PM To: Walter Oney Cc: Neil C Smith ; NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: Problem using NetBeans on Ubuntu This is the download page for Apache NetBeans: https://netbeans.apache.org/download/index.html

RE: Problem using NetBeans on Ubuntu

2019-09-20 Thread Walter Oney
From: Neil C Smith >> I installed NetBeans IDE 10.0, in which Netbeans is at 8.3 Patch 2, > What exactly does that mean? Try 11.1. NetBeans 10.0 is no longer supported. > There is a Snap available for Ubuntu as well as the installers and zip. Somebody connected with Apache wrote the cod

Problem using NetBeans on Ubuntu

2019-09-20 Thread Walter Oney
I installed NetBeans IDE 10.0, in which Netbeans is at 8.3 Patch 2, alongside the JDK v 11.0.4 on Ubuntu 5.0.0-27. Create a new Java application, say HelloWorld. The generated app will neither build nor run. The generated source program (HelloWorld.java) contains just this (not counting comments)