Form editor compatibility
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Is there an easy way to know if changes have been made in the form editor module that are not backwards compatible? Am I asking for trouble using the latest beta while my coworkers are still on the stable 3.3.2 version? I know betas generally come with a disclaimer about not being for production use. I can deal with some things not working correctly or applications crashing, but I don't want to put files in source control that other people will not be able to work with.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-Andy</FONT>
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[699 byte] By [
EWU] at [2007-11-25 16:47:07]
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Form editor compatibilityAndrew DeTorres wrote:
> Is there an easy way to know if changes have been made in the form editor
> module that are not backwards compatible? Am I asking for trouble using
> the latest beta while my coworkers are still on the stable 3.3.2 version?
Well, you should have no problems using forms from 3.3.2 version in 3.4.
However, there were some small changes done which the 3.3.2 version
would not read. As I am aware of:
- there is a new format of storing table models (of JTable) in 3.4
(see http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21115 for details),
- there is a new accessibility support in 3.4 -- if you set some accessibility
property in the form, it will be saved in a higher format version which the
3.3.x will refuse to read at all.
There should be no other changes -- in case there are not some bugs.
Please report it if you've found some. Thanks.
But generally, I see normal changing file format in new version of a product
still being able to read files from older version - but you cannot expect the
old version to read new file formats...
> I know betas generally come with a disclaimer about not being for
> production use.
There is no know problem in the beta with the forms format, as I wrote
above...
- Tomas
