Last week, I get very depressed, I have three big apps in production and many more using Swing Application Framework. Later, when I started to migrate to Netbeans 7.1, BOOM!, no more support for SAF.
So what can I do, any ideas how to migrate to Netbeans 7.1?
I will appreciate your help.
PS: Netbeans team, please don't add frameworks without a warning that are just an Java Specification Request - JSR. When I started to use SAF, it looks like it will be never discontinued.
PS2: To make us hear we are using SAF, vote at https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204661
I don't have a good answer, but this may give other people more ideas (and it would be more useful to include the info here than to post a separate question)...
I also have a SAF app that I now need java 1.7 for, so have switched to netbeans 7.1, and can't edit the forms in nb7.0. I switch between nb7.0 to edit screens, then use nb7.1 to compile and run.
If I create a form in nb7.1, it works ok with my app, and I've looked at the generated code and the .properties files nb7.0 and nb7.1 create for, say, a JPanel, they look identical.
I haven't figured out how to "convert" the nb7.0-generated JPanels to ones that work with nb7.1, but I can create an empty JPanel in 7.1, then run 7.0 and copy all the controls from the 7.0 form to the 7.1 form. Icons get lost--a NetBeans bug, and code gets lost, in general, a costly and error-prone process.
There may be some flag somewhere in the project that tells if a JPanel is "SAF" or not. If so, finding it would make migration much easier.