Thanks for the tips, Gerry.
I'm not sure I want to use jdk1.3.1 for compiling. I'm using DragNDrop and printing facilities from 1.4.0 and want to be able to
test them.
But I disabled the following modules:
Developing NetBeans
J2EE support
Web
Version Control
- then Forte for Java 3.0 crashed
Stability is unfortunately not the strongest side of Forte...
Start-up time improved from 2 minutes flat to 1:25.
The annoying 10 second delay for gui-manipulating operations was still there, and I guess I'll just have to wait for a hardware upgrade....
... or so I thought!
Every Forte-managed gui-class has a .form file associated to it. And as it turned out, this .form file was plain convienient xml, ready for tampering..
One of the problems I had was that I had to rename all references to the ResourceBundle of my huge class. I had about 80 references to this bundle, and if each one would take about 15 seconds to change it would be some work.. (20 minutes, but very tiresome...).
Instead I just closed down Forte, searched/replaced in the .from file and job done.
Just remember to take a copy of .from before tampering..
Steffen