Dear Geertjan, I think we're at cross-purposes here. My Project Properties doesn't have tabs - see the attached screenshot. I tried a new project using Maven and that does have tabs. So it seems to be an Ant problem.
Best regards, Peter mailto:[email protected] www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Monday, July 1, 2019, 11:41:46 AM, you wrote: 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected] 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected] www.ptoye.com
