SWT Designer for PPC Linux

[slingn]

It would be great if you could add support for SWT Designer on PPC Linux (e.g. Suse or YellowDog).

The list of system requirements simply says Linux, but it would appear there are a few architecture-dependent bits?

I'm using Eclipse 3.2M5a with SWT Designer v4.3.1. The problem I'm running into is that there doesn't appear to be a libshot.so for ppc or ppc64. It's just a guess, but it seems like the lack of a ppc or ppc64 version of the library is the reason for this exception in Eclipse:

Designer internal error [4.3.1.2006.04.21]: com.swtdesigner.ScreenShotMaker

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.swtdesigner.ScreenShotMaker
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:127)
at com.swtdesigner.model.swt.widgets.control.ControlInfo.creatShotImage(ControlInfo.java:304)
at com.swtdesigner.model.swt.widgets.control.ControlInfo.createGUIShot(ControlInfo.java:351)
at com.swtdesigner.model.swt.widgets.composite.AbstractCompositeInfo.createGUIShot(AbstractCompositeInfo.java:273)
at com.swtdesigner.model.JavaInfo.notifyPropertyChanged(JavaInfo.java:5862)
at com.swtdesigner.model.swt.widgets.control.ControlInfo.notifyPropertyChanged(ControlInfo.java:291)
at com.swtdesigner.model.swt.rcp.parts.WorkbenchPartInfo.notifyPropertyChanged(WorkbenchPartInfo.java:148)
at com.swtdesigner.model.JavaInfo.notifyPropertyChanged(JavaInfo.java:5835)
at com.swtdesigner.gef.common.property.DesignerEditorPropertyComposite.handleRootNodeSelected(DesignerEditorPropertyComposite.java:549)
at com.swtdesigner.gef.common.property.DesignerEditorPropertyComposite.updatePropertyComposite(DesignerEditorPropertyComposite.java:727)
at com.swtdesigner.gef.DesignerEditor.parseCompilationUnit(DesignerEditor.java:1004)
at com.swtdesigner.gef.DesignerEditor.handleActivate(DesignerEditor.java:913)
at com.swtdesigner.gef.DesignerEditor.handleActivate(DesignerEditor.java:897)
at com.swtdesigner.editors.MultiPageEditor.showDesignEditor(MultiPageEditor.java:352)
at com.swtdesigner.editors.MultiPageEditor$2.widgetSelected(MultiPageEditor.java:170)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:90)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1070)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1094)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1079)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:923)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.setSelection(CTabFolder.java:3170)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.onMouse(CTabFolder.java:1953)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder$1.handleEvent(CTabFolder.java:288)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1070)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3155)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2835)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1914)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1878)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:419)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:143)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:95)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:78)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:92)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:68)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:376)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:169)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:64)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:615)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:336)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:280)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:977)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:952)

[Eric Clayberg]

I'm using Eclipse 3.2M5a with SWT Designer v4.3.1. The problem I'm running into is that there doesn't appear to be a libshot.so for ppc or ppc64. It's just a guess, but it seems like the lack of a ppc or ppc64 version of the library is the reason for this exception in Eclipse

Yes. We have only compiled it against 32 and 64-bit Intel versions of Linux. We don't have any PPC based Linux machines to compile the library on, but we would be happy to supply the source if you would like to compile it locally.

[cjm]

I'm having a similar problem. If theres still no binary available, I'd like the source so I try to get libshot.so running under YDL. If the OP has already done this, I'd love to get the resulting binary. I'd want the source in any case, however.

-cjm

[Eric Clayberg]

I'm having a similar problem. If theres still no binary available, I'd like the source so I try to get libshot.so running under YDL. If the OP has already done this, I'd love to get the resulting binary. I'd want the source in any case, however.

The source files are available here:

http://old.instantiations.com/windowbui ... hotsrc.zip