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Re: Moving code in Netbeans

From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Moving code in Netbeans
Date 2016-06-07 21:12 -0400
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On 6/7/2016 8:31 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 6/7/2016 8:19 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 6/7/2016 7:44 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>                                                                    But
>>> it doesn't seem to me that anyone should care about the auto-generated
>>> code's appearance; it seems akin to worrying about the appearance of the
>>> JVM bytecode generated by the compiler.  Although auto-generated code is
>>> Java, it is not "source:" the source is the stuff the GUI design tool
>>> takes in, and the auto-generated Java is "object code."  Nobody is
>>> expected to read it (except in extremis while chasing weird bugs), and
>>> certainly nobody is expected to modify it.
>>
>> Hm. I believe that some GUI's actual used the code as source for
>> GUI builder.
>>
>> It is almost a requirement for a bi-directional GUI builder where
>> one can eithe ruse tool or manual edit the code, where the latter
>> does not break the GUI builder (assuming you play nice).
>>
>> But NB used to be uni-directional and if it still is, then that
>> logic does not apply.
>
>     I'm not aware of such bi-directional setups -- but there are lots
> and lots of things I'm not aware of!

JBuilder was rather good at it 10-14 years ago.

>                                 One stumbling block that occurs
> to me is that deciding what the "source" is could become difficult:
> For build X the source is Foo.form, for build X+1 it's Foo.java, and
> for build X+2 it's Foo.form again.  Can you see a source control
> system going bonkers over this?
>
>     (For build X+3 it turns out that *both* Foo.java and Foo.form
> have been edited, incompatibly, since X+2 ...)

I agree that it is either source=form or source=code, no mix (until
IDE change).

Arne

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Moving code in Netbeans Dave <dboland9@fastmail.fm> - 2016-06-06 16:03 -0400
  Moving code in Netbeans Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 13:47 -0700
    Re: Moving code in Netbeans Dave <dboland9@fastmail.fm> - 2016-06-06 18:24 -0400
      Re: Moving code in Netbeans Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 16:52 -0700
        Re: Moving code in Netbeans Dave <dboland9@fastmail.fm> - 2016-06-06 23:04 -0400
          Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-06-06 23:30 -0400
            Re: Moving code in Netbeans Dave <dboland9@fastmail.fm> - 2016-06-07 00:16 -0400
              Re: Moving code in Netbeans Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-06-07 06:53 +0000
              Re: Moving code in Netbeans Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2016-06-07 09:26 +0100
              Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-06-07 07:44 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Dave <dboland9@fastmail.fm> - 2016-06-07 07:53 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-06-07 08:24 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-06-07 13:22 +0000
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 06:23 -0700
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-06-07 10:10 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 07:36 -0700
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-06-07 20:23 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 13:43 -0700
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-06-07 20:30 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-06-07 20:19 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-06-07 20:31 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-06-07 21:12 -0400
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:41 -0700
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-06-08 17:08 -0400
              Re: Moving code in Netbeans Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 13:39 -0700
                Re: Moving code in Netbeans Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2016-06-07 23:29 +0200

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