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Bug 219204

Summary:	Incorrect error shown where none actually exists
Product:	java	Reporter:	Chiana
Component:	Source	Assignee:	Svata Dedic <sdedic>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Showing incorrect hint and source.

Description Chiana 2012-09-28 22:21:18 UTC

[ JDK VERSION : 1.7.7 ]

As you can see on the screendump the IDE signals an error on line 130. There is
however nothing wrong with that line, the error indicated is "Inconvertible
types".

Comment 1 Chiana 2012-09-28 22:21:58 UTC

Created attachment 125083 [details]
Showing incorrect hint and source.

Comment 2 Chiana 2012-09-29 00:34:39 UTC

I think I can shed some extra light on this.

The class WindowsRegistryError extends WindowsRegistryHandle, both are defined in an external project (WinReg) that is included in this project (Service).
However WindowsRegistryHandle extends IntByReference a class that is defined in jna.jar that is included into the WinReg project. The Service project does not use JNA so it is not included into that.
Just to check I added jna.jar into Service and the error marking dissapeared.
So the error seems to be that if the class extends a class that is not include into the same project Netbeans thinks it is an error but according to the compiler itself it is not, or something similar...

Comment 3 Martin Balin 2015-09-17 11:15:59 UTC

Report from old NetBeans version. Due to code changes since it was reported likely not reproducible now. Feel free to reopen if happens in 8.0.2 or 8.1.

Comment 4 Chiana 2015-09-17 12:43:47 UTC

Also report was made 3 years ago...