Re: Adding external libraries in NB 8+

That was extremely helpful, thanks very much.

=Don=

> On Mar 21, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Oliver Rettig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I understand you correct you want to add an plain jar file to your netbeans 
> application. Typically you wrap a jar in a nb-project which you can add to a 
> suite and add via the shown gui into your app.
> 
> If the jar is used only for one of your nb-projects of your nb-app you can add 
> the jar to this nb-project directly instead of creating a new wrapper-project.
> 
> Right-click on the project, open the properties menu, switch to the Libraries 
> tab, switch to the wrapped-jars tab and add the jar.
> 
> If this is not available you have right-clicked on a suite instead of a 
> project.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> best regards
> Oliver
> 
>> I’m adapting an old, NB Platform project (6.9 era) to 8.2.
>> 
>> So I’ve just installed 8.2, I open my project, and it complains that there’s
>> libraries missing.
>> 
>> Not a problem, been here before..
>> 
>> So Project Properties->Libraries tab….
>> 
>> Huh… No “Add Jar” option..
>> 
>> Search google. “Netbeans 8 add libraries” returns nothing but a but ton of
>> links how to add libraries to earlier versions on NetBeans… And they all
>> say the same thing, Click ‘Project Properties”, use the Libraries tab,
>> click Add jar….
>> 
>> Except, I don’t have that option.. It’s not even an unavailable, grey’ed out
>> option. “Add Project” doesn’t appear to be the answer, “Add Cluster” feels
>> incorrect...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I must be missing something easy, but I sure can’t seem to find a quick
>> answer… All I want to do is add back j3d.
>> 
>> Would some kind soul please point me in the right direction?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> Don Krause
> 
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