I recently tried to open a JPanel form that I created with NetBeans GUI Builder and NetBeans almost freezes up on me. The design form is an all-gray background, not the usual gray area where I can place components surrounded by a white background. If I click on the Source button and then switch back to Design view, all of the tabs in the editor pane disappear.
Fortunately I am using Git for version control. The last commit of this file was over a week ago. I might have to revert to an earlier version to see where this problem was introduced. In the mean time, does anyone have any idea what could cause this behavior? Is it possible that my .form file is corrupted? The application compiles and runs just fine.
It sounds like Netbeans can’t load the form due to some internal error. This can sometimes be fixed by doing a clean & build to clear out any old cached data.
If that doesn’t work, you can check out the “message.log” for the error…and yes, I wish it would display it on the screen
Off memory it use to be in “{user.profile}/.Netbeans/{version}/var/log” (I think). It got moved on Windows under 7.2 to “{user.profile}\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\7.2\var\log”