Switched from Netbeans 3.6 to 4.0 and form design is blank

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James Kimble - 30 Jan 2005 04:18 GMT

I'm trying to upgrade my IDE from NB 3.6 to NB 4.1 and, with the
same setup (some custom beans) I'm getting a blank form design
screen even though all my beans were successfully added to the
pallette and look normal. They just do show up on my form design
screen anymore. I get outlines of things when I click in the
tree view of the widgets but nothing else.I'm fairly sure this is
a classpath thing (which seems to be 98.9% of all java problems,
thank you SUN!) but I'll be darned if I can see where the heck it
is supposed to be set. The help tells you to right click on the
project and select it from the properties screen. EEHHH... Sorry!
No classpath setting there. This is extremely frustrating. Any
help would be appreciated.

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Wiseguy - 30 Jan 2005 06:22 GMT

"James Kimble" <jkimble@one.net> wrote in news:1107058694.124434.275140
@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> I'm trying to upgrade my IDE from NB 3.6 to NB 4.1 and, with the
> same setup (some custom beans) I'm getting a blank form design
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> No classpath setting there. This is extremely frustrating. Any
> help would be appreciated.

netbeans versions greater than 3.6 suck! At least 4.0 was garbage so I
went back to 3.6 until I can get to a fast inet connection to download
eclipse.

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James Kimble - 30 Jan 2005 16:20 GMT

I've had a terrible time with it. I'm running it on Suse 9.2 and
it crashes 3 times out of 5. I don't think I'm going to be able
to use it. It's also not as intuitive as the previous version.
They keep changing the file/project paradigm and it's just stupid.

The stability is the worst though. It's a memory hog (and has a
leak, don't leave it running on Windows overnight!) and it's so
slow it's like working in the 70's again.

I'd go to Eclipse at this point but it's forms management stuff
doesn't seem to easily allow you to take a large existing project
from NB and import it. If there were a way I'd be with Eclipse
in a heartbeat.

> netbeans versions greater than 3.6 suck! At least 4.0 was garbage so I
> went back to 3.6 until I can get to a fast inet connection to download
> eclipse.

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Wiseguy - 30 Jan 2005 17:54 GMT

"James Kimble" <jkimble@one.net> scribbled on the stall wall:

> I've had a terrible time with it. I'm running it on Suse 9.2 and
> it crashes 3 times out of 5. I don't think I'm going to be able
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> from NB and import it. If there were a way I'd be with Eclipse
> in a heartbeat.

In two hours of playing with netbeans 4.0 I found four bugs in the user
interface that SHOULD have been found and fixed by the developers before it
was ever released. Then, when I looked at their bug reporting procedure
I said "ain't a chance in hell that I'm gonna register just to report a
bug". netbeans is another case of the developers believing that users
exists to do all testing and that the only repsonsibility the developer has
is to make sure it compiles cleanly.

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Switched from Netbeans 3.6 to 4.0 and form design is blank

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