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geertjan wrote:
> On 9-3-2017 23:09, ruperty wrote:
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> > geertjan wrote:
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> > > On 9-3-2017 21:19, ruperty wrote:
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> > I'm afraid I don't know a great deal about the Netbeans Platform. It seems total overkill for what I need but I was forced to use it when Netbeans ceased to support for my swing application a few years ago.
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> No, NetBeans did not stop supporting the Swing Application Framework. 
> The Swing Application Framework was a JSR, i.e., a proposal to be 
> included in the JDK. The proposal was dropped or rejected and it would 
> have been irresponsible for NetBeans to continue to officially support a 
> dropped JSR.
> 
> At the same time, on plugins.netbeans.org you'll find two plugins that 
> continue to provide support for SAF.
> 


When the official support stopped there was no obvious indication of any other support or the plugins. I came across the plugin many months later, but by that time I had spent weeks and weeks porting to the Netbeans Platform.


> 
> Also, happy to hop onto a Skype call (I'm geertjanwielenga) to look at 
> your code with you and help solve this problem.
> 


Thanks for the offer that might be useful at some point, though things have developed with this issue. I thought I'd try it out on a different laptop (Windows 10) and found that it worked. I went back to my Linux machine and that still didn't work. But as the Windows 10 install had involved a complete build of code for the application and my external projects, I did a rebuild on Linux and the original Windows 7 laptop and they both worked as expected. So I guess the problem was something to do with incompatible code. Though its a bit disappointing that there was no obvious error flagged, as I still don't really know what the problem was.


This has raised a few other queries with the platform. I can create new topics if you prefer.

Why is the size of the installer 170Mb when my code is only a few Mb? If this is because of included modules is there a way of checking if there are unnecessary modules? I do get a message on first startup about disabling modules.

In the title bar of the app I get "201510222201". Do you know where this number comes from and how I avoid it? 

In the project properties -> Application -> Branding Name if I enter an uppercase letter I get an error, "Application name is not valid". Is there a way around that?