Dear Geertjan, If only I could have! It's several thousand lines long and, as I said, trying to regenerate the problem with a simple example didn't work.
However, I've found the solution (I think). You mentioned the OuterPane.form1.txt file which might be confusing NB. I renamed it (I don't delete files incase they're needed again) but the problem stayed. Then I moved it to another directory and the problem went away. I hadn't realised that NB was so sensitive to files that shouldn't be there, even with an extension of .old Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Friday, July 12, 2019, 4:25:35 PM, you wrote: You’re always going to have the same response — put the code somewhere so that someone can look at it and/or provide clear step by step instructions to reproduce the problem. Gj On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 17:15, Peter Toye <netbe...@ptoye.com> wrote: To continue with this (as I've not had any feedback) the .form file seems to contain the correct character: </Component> <Component class="javax.swing.JButton" name="btnRow"> <Properties> <Property name="font" type="java.awt.Font" editor="org.netbeans.beaninfo.editors.FontEditor"> <Font name="SansSerif" size="12" style="0"/> </Property> <Property name="text" type="java.lang.String" value="↔"/> THIS IS CORRECT! <Property name="toolTipText" type="java.lang.String" value="Confine selected squares to row"/> <Property name="margin" type="java.awt.Insets" editor="org.netbeans.beaninfo.editors.InsetsEditor"> <Insets value="[2, 5, 2, 5]"/> </Property> </Properties> So there's something wrong in the translation from this and the generated Java. Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 12:53:19 PM, you wrote: I modified a button to display a character rather than a GIF icon. The character is a symbol - from the Unicode arrows set \x219x. It displays OK in the Design (and also Preview) panes (see Fonts1.png) but when the program is run it displays as a question mark. And if I look at the generated code, the question mark is there as well (see Fonts2.png). The character coding for the project is set to UTF-8, so there shouldn't be any code conversion issues there. I've looked at the generated code with a hex editor and it's definitely a "?", the problem isn't just the display font used for the file. The only slightly odd thing about the project is that it was imported from NB version 8. I've tried generating a such simpler example from scratch, but this displays OK. And the generated code has the correct UTF-8 encoding for the character. Has anyone any idea what's going on? It seems to be something to do with converting the form design to Java code, which I don't know anything about. Thanks in advance, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com
