[cvolk]

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[Greg]

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[Greg]

Chris,

Are there any of the configuration details regarding your Internet Explorer install that might be relavant. We have never seen the issue you are reporting in our testing environment. For us to address the issue, we will need to replicate your environment as exactly as possible to try to recreate the problem. Sorry, we don’t know any more about this issue at the time. Any details you can provide will help us track down this problem.

[cvolk]

I was able to fix this problem, albeit in a rather painful manner, and thought I would post my findings and actions here for others’ reference.

Your suggestion of an IE anomaly started me thinking about whether this might be related to some problems with resolution-change-related problems I was experiencing after installing some Microsoft beta software (yech, I know, but professionally necessary for a mobile project). This problem evidenced itself as flakiness or system hangs during app-driven screen rez changes, and the occasional flakiness with system software.

So – I decided that I should reinstall windows (second time in 5 weeks) and see if that cleared up all issues. It did. TJe designer works fine with a new install of Win XP with latest service packs.

Not a great solution to provide to one of your customers, but it does indirectly validate your suggestion that it was a system issue, namely with the too-pervasive IE environment.

Thanks for your suggestion, it allowed me to narrow things down enough to know I had to bite the bullet, and hence saved me time messing with eclipse/ME.

-Chris

[Greg]

Chris,

Sorry for your trouble. Do you remember which beta-software you had installed that could have caused the problem? This way we can ask other users if they run into the same exception. Regardless, glad your up and running.

[cvolk]

…meant to mention that – it was Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (Team Edition)…

[aluna]

Guys im having the same problem. Reinstalling Windows XP is not an option! 🙁

Thoughts?

[Greg]

Aluna,

What version of Windows, and version of IE do you have? Do you know if you have installed any pervasive software that would “touch” lots of integrated OS features like IE?

[cvolk]

Just a note that if you also installed VS 2005 beta 2, then you are not in a good place. I spent weeks searching MS forums, knowledge bases, and the VS sub-site. I scoured the net, and compared notes with a fellow developer who also had the same VS problems. It really whacks out the OS – directx problems, IE problems (as it turned out), flaky OS software, etc. No one that I know was able to recover their windows OS after this problem without reinstalling.

In the future I will be using a separate machine for MS development as similar things have happened with their (low quality) software in the past many times.

I know this does not really help directly, but I really wanted to save you some time if this is a VS thing like my situation.

Good luck… 🙁

[Riyad Kalla]

cvolk,
This does help very much, folks in similar situations may come across your post and realize that they may be barking up the wrong tree while troubleshooting, thank you for posting.

[cvolk]

Any time. The world of development and it’s occasional woes should always be collaborative 🙂

[thomasmarkus]

I’m running eclipse 3.1, myeclipse 4.0.2 ans have no Visual Studio installed.

and i’m getting the same exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.jniwrapper.win32.ie.an.addStatusListener(SourceFile:56)
at com.jniwrapper.win32.ie.al.<init>(SourceFile:116)
at com.jniwrapper.win32.ie.al.<init>(SourceFile:85)
at com.jniwrapper.win32.ie.Browser.a(SourceFile:71)
at com.jniwrapper.win32.ie.Browser.<init>(SourceFile:51)
at com.jniwrapper.win32.ie.Browser.<init>(SourceFile:43)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.designeditor.MSHTMLViewer.createControl(MSHTMLViewer.java:307)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.designeditor.MSHTMLViewer.<init>(MSHTMLViewer.java:257)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.designeditor.MSHTMLViewer.<init>(MSHTMLViewer.java:229)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.designeditor.DesignEditSubsystem.createDesignViewer(DesignEditSubsystem.java:175)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.WebDesigner2.createDesignViewer(WebDesigner2.java:116)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.createDesignerControls(HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.java:499)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.createDesignPage(HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.java:475)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner2.HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.createPages(HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.java:257)
at org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart.createPartControl(MultiPageEditorPart.java:241)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPartHelper(EditorReference.java:585)

and don’t know how to get this MyEclipse to work. Reinstalled eclipse / myeclipse twice, same problem.

[thomasmarkus]

can i configure the jspeditor in a way that the “preview” is not used? I only want the “normal” JSP editor, not the preview e.g.
And the exception text tells me, that this seems to be a problem with the preview?

[Greg]

Thomas,

Can you give us more details of your configuration? Including your Windows version, IE version, MSOffice version and if you have .Net installed?

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