And in the Project Properties dialog, the first tab you see, named 'Sources', has 'Source/Binary Format' set to JDK 8 by default for me. When I change that to JDK 6, the two properties are changed for me to the following:
javac.source=1.6 javac.target=1.6 Thanks, Gj On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 12:40 PM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > When I create a new Java SE project with Ant in NetBeans, I see these two > in 'project.properties', you must have these too: > > javac.source=1.8 > javac.target=1.8 > > Look in the Files window, in the 'nbproject' folder, to find > 'project.properties' file. > > Gj > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:57 AM Peter Toye <netbe...@ptoye.com> wrote: > >> Dear Geertjan, >> >> To answer both your posts: >> >> I can't see any project option which corresponds to "source" or "target" >> with a value including "6". Which option are you referring to, please? >> >> It's a straight Java app using Swing. Generated originally on NB version >> <=8 (can't remember exactly which version - it was a long time ago) by the >> usual method - select "Java application" and click "New | JFrame" - design >> & program from there. >> >> HTH. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Peter >> mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com >> www.ptoye.com >> >> ------------------------- >> Monday, July 1, 2019, 10:01:03 AM, you wrote: >> >> >> And what kind of project are we talking about, can you give a lot more >> details so we can help? >> >> Yes, it is Ant-based. But what kind of project type -- a NetBeans >> Platform application? A Java EE application? An HTML/JavaScript >> application? What, exactly? >> >> Gj >> >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:58 AM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> Look in the Project Properties of your project (right-click it in the >> Projects window and choose Properties). >> >> Gj >> >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:57 AM Peter Toye <netbe...@ptoye.com> wrote: >> >> I made a copy of a project in NB 8 and opened it in NB 11. Got some >> errors which were resolved OK. >> >> But it won't build - I get a warning and 2 errors: >> >> warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with >> -source 6 >> ??error: Source option 6 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later. >> ??error: Target option 6 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.??BUILD >> FAILED (total time: 0 seconds) >> >> I can't see any way of changing this as there aren't any project options >> to change the source or target, even if I knew what they were referring to. >> >> Stackoverflow gives remedies for this, but only for Maven. This project >> was built using Ant in NB 8 which I assume is carried over to NB 11. >> >> The only likely reference that I can see is in build-impl.xml which is >> firmly marked "DO NOT EDIT"! But the comment implies that the properties >> aren't being overridden correctly. >> >> <target depends="-pre-init,-init-private" name="-init-user"> >> ?? <property file="${user.properties.file}"/> >> ?? <!-- The two properties below are usually overridden --> >> ?? <!-- by the active platform. Just a fallback. --> >> ?? <property name="default.javac.source" value="1.6"/> >> ?? <property name="default.javac.target" value="1.6"/> >> ?? </target>?? >> >> Any ideas where to go from here please? >> >> Regards, >> >> Peter >> mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com <netbe...@ptoye.com> >> www.ptoye.com >> >
