I've had similar behavior when changing branches in the source with the IDE open. Especially if there are missing classes between the branches. Seems that confuses the IDE. Only solution when it gets like that on my case is to delete the cache folder.
On Tue, May 6, 2025, 2:14 PM ChrisOlsen <crol...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Michael and All -- > > I am a completely amateur programmer, so this may have no relevance to > the problem under discussion. > > I experienced a similar (same?) red dot phenomena, and utilized the same > fixes. For me the dots occurred after I had copied over some old classes > to the current project using the File Explorer (Windows 11). (By copied > over I mean that the class names were the same.) Perhaps 15% of the few > hundred source files subsequently appeared with the red error dots, and the > dots disappeared after opening and saving the files. I don't now recall if > I had to do a silly space change. > > I am using Java 17. > > -- Chris > > On Tue, May 6, 2025, at 1:53 PM, Michael Bien wrote: > > On 5/5/25 09:39, Jens Zurawski wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I have a nasty problem every time I'm updating to a new Netbeans > Version, which really prevents me from doing it too often. So every now and > then I'm skipping a version to avoid this issue. > > > > I'm working (besides others) on a big EE application with lots of JSF > views and composition components and relying on a lot of libs including > PrimeFaces, OmniFaces, DeltaSpike etc. Now, every time I'm upgrading the > Netbeans Version, on first opening of this big project, a random number of > files (around half of them, sometimes more) are marked with the little red > error notification icon. > > Any exceptions during code scan in the log when this happens? > > You can simulate a fresh config by starting NB with --userdir > "C:\path\to\tempusr1". Once started open the project. > > (don't import the config if asked) > > what project type are we talking about? maven? > > -mbien > > > > And this icon stays there even after a complete Clean and Build cycle > (the project builds without any error). The only way to get rid of these > icons is to open every single file into the editor, make some silly change > (a single space is enough) and save it again. After that the icon > eventually vanishes. Once all of the files are "cleaned" this way, from > that time on Netbeans works like expected and really only marks files with > errors. > > > > I assume that there is some timing/order conflict in gathering and > generating all needed informations upon start up and opening a project for > the first time, but I have no clue, what it could be. > > > > This isn't really a showstopper for me, because in the end everything > seems to work, but it's annoying and irritating to see lots of "errors" > which in fact are not errors. > > A good workaround for me would be, if I could trigger the > calculation/generation of these markers once every lib etc. has been > scanned (or whatever causes that problem) so that I don't have to manually > go through the whole project and open every second file just to get rid of > these icons. Is there a way of doing this? Deleting the cache and > restarting Netbeans doesn't do the trick. > > > > If it matters: This is for Netbeans 25 (but already was this way since > older versions, but sadly I don't recall when it starts to get my > attention), I'm using Java 21 on Windows 10 > > > > cu > > Jens > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
