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I’ve just installed MyEclipse 5.5.1 GA on my Vista (64-bit) laptop and am having issues with the HTML Designer not displaying anything initially. Here’s the scenario:
Create a new Java project, create a new HTML file using the defaults. The HTML file opens in the designer in the Design tab – split panes with preview on top and source on bottom. However, both panes are empty… nothing is displayed in either pane. If I click in the source pane I can see the HTML outline in the Outline view, so the correct HTML code was generated and is in the source pane.. just not visible! No exceptions are thrown and no errors are logged to the error log. I’ve restarted Eclipse with the -clean flag and that did not correct the issue.
After doing a bit more playing around, I found that if I maximize either pane the correct display (preview or text) appears. I can then restore the splitter position and both panes display correctly.
Any ideas on how I can get the around having to maximize a pane to correctly display the HTML Designer when opening an HTML file?
Thanks for any help…
Steve
Can you go to windows > Preferences > General > Editors >> File Associations and set MyEclipse Visual HTML editor as the default editor for .html files. Can you check if the source shows up if you open the html file for the first time.
I set the Visual HTML Editor as the default and still have nothing showing up in either pane upon initial loading of an HTML file.
So your saying nothing is showning up under design and preview windows ? I couldn’t reproduce the condition at my end. This seems likean installation issue to me. Can you reinstall MyEclipse to a brand new location using the Full Stack installer and check if that solves the problem.
Let me know if the problem persists.
Yup… nothing is showing up until I minimize a pane using the arrows on the splitter bar. My initial install was done using the Full Stack installer; but I’ll try deleting and reinstalling again to ensure nothing got messed up. Note, however, that once either pane in minimized and restored everything with the HTML Visual Designer works fine… it’s just the initial loading that appears to not get refreshed/updated/displayed correctly.
I’m also going to try the R6 M1 version of MyEclipseIDE and see if that makes a difference… I’ll post back whatever I find!
Steve
Nipun,
I reinstalled from scratch into a new folder and still have the same issue. Also tried MyEclipse R6 M1 and have the same issues… except that in M6R1 when I open the HTML file the bottom pane is solid black until I minimize/restore the pane.
Any other thoughts?
Can you try the new JDK 1.6.0_02 release (6.0 Update 2) on Vista. This could be a rendering problem.
Also, can you create a brand new workspace, create a new project and see if suddenly all the libs work ?
No luck… Tried JDK 1.6.0_02, clean install of MyEclipse 5.5.1 (and 6.0 M1), new workspace, new project… same issue.
Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
JDK 1.5.0_12
JDK 1.6.0_02
MyEclipse packaged JRE
MyEclipse 5.5.1 GA
MyEclipse 6.0 M1
Each combo was tried with new workspaces and new projects.
MyEclipse is being started with the -clean flagIn all cases the Design Tab shows nothing until one of the panes in minimized. If I click the Preview tab, the correct HTML is displayed in both panes.
After playing some more, it gets better… here’s the scenario:
– Create new HTML file (right click project, New… HTML, click Finish); HTML Designer opens with nothing displayed
– Move the Design Tab splitter
– HTML is displayed in the upper pane
– No text is displayed in the lower pane, however “folding icons” do appear (circles with a minus in them) in the left gutter of the page. In addition, the scrollbar is displayed in the lower pane.
– if I move the scrollbar, text will appear for areas that fell outside of the initial lower pane viewing area. So for a default HTML document, only the following text is displayed:
<doctype…>
<html>
<head>
<title MyHTML.html</title>…several blank lines here…
This is my HTML page. <br>
</body>
</html>Not sure if you can do anything with this info, but figured I’d pass it along. Sure would be nice to get this figured out!
Steve
Steve,
This sounds like a bug we will need to look into. Unfortunately the one person on the team that is using Vista has a 32-bit install of it. I will see if we can get a 64-bit install for testing.Thanks again for all the help tracking down these issues.
No problem… if I have time I’ll try to recreate this with Vista 32-bit and post the results. If you need me to gather any debuging info let me know and I’ll be happy to get get it for you.
Steve
Steve,
If you had a 32-bit install of Vista handy I would be very interested to know if it was still happening. Thank you for the assistance.Riyad,
I installed Vista 32 bit on a VM instance and could not re-create the issue… however, the video rivers between the two machines are very different. The laptop (64bit) is running an NVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, while the VM machine (32 bit) only has a VMWare SVGA II… big difference! And quite frankly, I don’t really want to blow away the laptop and reinstall Vista 32-bit version just to test this… 😉
It’s possible that the 64-bit Vista video drivers are the culprit… but I haven’t seen any other case so far – especially in Eclipse – where they have cased rendering issue like this. However, I have known video drivers to do strange things. I was going to try disabling some of the video performance settings, but there are none listed – or the driver just isn’t letting me drop the cards performance down. Sigh…
In addition to anything you can try, I will contact Sager (my laptop provider) to see if they have any updated 7950GTX drivers… maybe I’ll get lucky!
Thanks for looking into this!
Steve
Steve,
You could try updating your drivers from the nvidia site here:
(64-bit Vista Drivers): http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_158.24.html
