Re: writeExternal() , readExternal()

Hi Mark,

Are you upgrading an older application to use a newer NB Platform? Or
are you creating new TopComponents within an older application? I had
problems myself when moving to a newer NB a while ago when the
properties stuff was introduced.  I'm trying to remember it exactly,
but my guess is to check if your TopComponent is annotated with
ConvertAsProperties [1]. If so, that would explain your code not
touching readExternal/writeExternal. I think the default these days
when using the wizard to create new TopComponents is to use
ConvertAsProperties.  There's a tricky aspect when updating an older
TopComponent to use that annotation as the older properties from the
binary stream can be hard to migrate correctly.

Hope that helps!
steven


[1] - http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-settings/org/netbeans/api/settings/ConvertAsProperties.html

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Mark Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/20/2016 12:51 PM, Mark Wade wrote:
>>
>> I'm not understanding.
>
>
> I could call writeExternal/readExternal from writeProperties/readProperties
> but that would be just way too nasty, eh?