Release Notes for Preview of NetBeans IDE 6.1 With JavaFX

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NetBeans IDE 6.1 With JavaFX has been tested on the following platforms and technologies.

Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions):

• Processor: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Core Duo (or compatible)
• Memory: 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Disk space: minimum 900 MB of available hard-disk space (1.1GB recommended)
• Java SE Development Kit: JDK 6 Update 7 or later

Macintosh OS X 10.5.2+:

• Processor: Multicore Intel
• Memory: 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Disk space: minimum 800MB of available hard-disk space (1GB recommended)
• Java SE Development Kit: Java for Mac OS X 10.5, Update 1

• Issue 136424: Unable to uninstall Webstart application on Windows Vista
  
  Description: On Windows Vista with JDK 6, you cannot uninstall a Web Start application.
  Workaround: None.

Projects

• Issue 133630: Project is not compiled if Java classes use JavaFX classes
  
  Description: You cannot use JavaFX classes in Java code inside one project.
  Workaround: Move the JavaFX classes to a different project and then add a dependency to that project.
  
  
• Issue 133047: Build system uses Java technology to run and compile the project
  
  Description: Compilation and execution results of the javafx and java commands might be different. Compilation uses javafxc ant from the compiler library. For execution, javafx binary calls java. The results should be the same.
  Workaround: Compile and run source files using javafx binaries in the command line or by changing the build-impl.xml file before you compile again.

Editor

• Issue 136056: Code completion feature does not suggest classes that were not imported
  
  Description: If you import a specific class and try to use the code completion feature, some classes are missing from the list. This issue also blocks implementation of the Fix Imports feature.
  Workaround: Use import javafx.<package of choice>.* and all the classes within that package become available for code completion.
  
  
• Issue 137619: Code completion feature does not suggest anything when the source code can not be compiled
  
  Description: If the source code is broken (that is, a red box appears in the upper right hand corner of the Editor), code completion might not work.
  Workaround: Try to keep the Editor in the "green" state (watch the upper right hand corner) when you want to use the code completion feature.
  
  
• Issue 140624: The javafx.* code completion list is not in sync with API documentation
  
  Description: The Editor code completion list for javafx.* shows four extra folders:
  • async
  • fxunit
  • reflect
  • ui
  Workaround: Ignore the extra folders.
  
  
• Issue 138494: Go to Source feature does not work for indexof operator
  
  Description: The Go to Source feature does not work on the target of the indexof operator. An exception report is posted whenever the user places the cursor on the indexof operator or uses the code completion feature nearby.
  Workaround: None. The target source is usually nearby. The occurrence of this exception is rare and non-intrusive. It is marked as a corner case.
  
  
• Issue 137323: javac.util.Abort: JavafxCheck.completionError in the Editor
  
  Description: If the source code is broken in a certain way, an exception is logged and some editor features (Go to Source, semantic highlighting, and code completion) do not work.
  Workaround: Fix the source file.
  
  
• Issue 125014: Fix Imports feature is not supported
  
  Description: The Fix Imports feature is not complete.
  Workaround: None

Preview

• Issue 139570: Animation does not work after code editing
  
  Description: If the Preview feature is enabled for a source file and changes are made to the source file, animation in the Preview window stops.
  Workaround: Press the Preview Reset button to restart the animation.

Mac-specific Issues

• Issue 138484: Go to Source feature does not work
  
  Description: Go To Source feature for Java source code does not work in the Preview release because the JDK sources are not yet available on the Mac OS platform supported for this release.
  Workaround: None
  
  
• Issue 138492: Profiler: Calibration failed
  
  Description: The Profiler does not work on the Mac OS platform with the final release of NetBeans IDE 6.1 and JDK 6.
  Workaround: Use the patch release for NetBeans IDE 6.1.
  
  
• Issue 140156: Editor Preview feature disabled on Mac OS
  
  Description: The Preview feature is disabled on the Mac for the Preview Release.
  Workaround: None

Debugger

• Issue 135661: Project debugged several times in one session
  
  Description: Users might see the wrong execution sequence of code. During debugging, some JavaFX statements are generated with additional lines in the byte code.
  Workaround: If additional statements are generated in the byte code, then the second sequence of execution is the actual execution of the JavaFX source code.
  
  
• Issue 131146: Go to Source feature does not work on method-level
  
  Description: It is not always clear from the profiling results table as to which part of the JavaFX source code is critical from the profiling point of view and what exactly needs to be fixed.
  Workaround: When a critical element is found in a profiled JavaFX class, you can change the profiling settings to profile only the selected functions from that class. You will be able to find the "bottle neck" in the class after a few iterations.

• JavaFX Technology Downloads
• JavaFX Developer home page
• JavaFX Preview SDK Release Notes