Netbeans used to work - now the files are crossing and other problems

[Marian]

Hi -

I really hope I can get some serious help here - A month ago I took a quick JAVA course - I used Netbeans 6.7 for writng many programs - I always used File -> New Project and then File-> New File (for setting the main class). It worked perfectly, I could even jumped back and forth between programs.

Now here's where the trouble came in...
1- Suddenly when I tried to Run a program I got a message that I had no Main Class

2- Even if I tried to run one of my old programs that I knew had worked, I also got a message that I had No Main Class

3- Now things got a little better... Suddenly it must be recognizing some main class because I can actually get some output, but what is happening is that after I run my first program, no matter what I opened and had on my screen for another program (old or new) when I run, I get the results of the first program - The little tab on top of the output screen will even say the name of that first program which it is now running (though I have no idea why)

I am wasting days, getting no work done, because suddenly Netbeans is playing tricks on me.

Can you help???

thanks
Marian

[Mark Wade]

Hello Marian,

I just replied to, apparently, a previous post of yours, here and to
you directly. So, good, you seem to be making progress.

When you say:

[Marian]

Thank-you for all the help. Using the tree of projects and then right clicking -> run on the actual file does work so I am very relieved (and very grateful) that I can go on like that but overall I am still stuck that I can't simply choose the "run" icon (the green arrow) to run my file (it used to work so nicely). When I click on the icon it automatically chooses to run the file I was in before (possibly, the one I was in before was actually new - I'll have to check that),

I have on top tabs for the last few programs I had run (not in the same project, different projects) and I know I used to be able to choose a different tab (usually for reference I did this - to learn from things I did in the past) and then if I pressed the green icon it would run whatever program I had just brought up on my screen.

It's now deciding one project/file is the default and that's what the green arrow does every time.

Anyway, like I said, it's a little annoying but at least I can continue by using this mehod of right clicking on the actual file in the project and then choosing run

Thanks

PS - if you can give advice for handling the green button/default problem, I'd appreciate that - thanks

[Mark Wade]

I think I'm getting a handle on this...

[Marian]

PERFECT!! - I just started a long reply to you with lots of questions but as I typed I checked all you said and "thought". Then I realized what I was missing was Project Groups! - If I wanted to keep a second folder of projects I need a second project group. (before my tree showed all the projects regardless of which folder they were in, I had no group).

Thanks alot
Marian

(Now all I have to figure out is constructors, extends, static and root bases - but that's for a different forum (any suggestion of a good one?))