Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

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Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby gabe » Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:54 pm

For anyone using GWT Designer and thinking of updating to Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) ahead of its release, don't.

With xulrunner at 1.9.1.2, switching to design mode gives a:

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javax.naming.TimeLimitExceededException: While accessing http://127.0.0.1:56643/0/__start.html, browser was not initialized during 60000 msec.
   at com.instantiations.designer.gwt.linux.BrowserShellLinux.setUrl(BrowserShellLinux.java:129)


With xulrunner 1.9.0.13 from the universe repository, design mode starts but widgets are solid black blocks. Weird: this xulrunner worked fine in Jaunty. The embedded SWT browser widget works, but Design Mode does not.

With xulrunner 1.8.1.16 from the universe repository, there's an SWT crash when loading the browser widget.

Haven't managed to make it work yet. Using an up-to-date 32-bit Galileo build and Sun java 1.6.
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby Eric Clayberg » Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:05 am

gabe wrote:For anyone using GWT Designer and thinking of updating to Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) ahead of its release, don't.

Note that we don't test with or support beta OSes (especially Linux) prior to their formal releases as that tends to be a massive waste of time and effort.

We will test with the latest Ubuntu once it is released (some time in October).
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby gabe » Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:03 am

Yeah, I got that.

Just figured I'd post a warning since anyone looking at it would see that the development Ubuntu is using the identical Eclipse, JVM, and Gecko runtime that were used in Jaunty, so they might think they were safe.

The "black rectangle in design mode" is something I saw in Jaunty on occasion as well. It's weird; you can see the outline of controls on composites, you can drag them, click them, selection works - you just can't see what each control looks like.

I assume you're doing some kind of off-screen browser rendering, then showing bitmaps in Eclipse? Seems like everything is working except the bitmap process. I suppose this could be a video-driver glitch.

I know you're busy, but if you have any pointers on things to check I'd be happy to dig into this a bit.

And, if I may, a huge THANK YOU for releasing for and supporting Linux users - not an easy task at the best of times. You're doing a great thing, and it's noticed and appreciated.
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby gabe » Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:26 am

Hah! Just noticed something.

Order of events:

1. Create a new project and switch to design mode on the root panel: black rectangle.
2. Drop a button on the black rectangle; presto, working design mode, no more black!
3. Click the refresh/reparse button; black root panel and button.
4. Click around until I find the button I added in the black area, drag and drop it... Working design mode!
5. Click the refresh/reparse button; black root panel and button.
6. Drop a new button onto the rootpanel; working design mode!

Obviously something good happens when dropping a control in a new position on a panel, or dropping a new control on the panel, that allows the design mode to redraw properly.

Whatever it is, it doesn't happen automatically on reparse or refresh, or when opening a file and switching to design mode for the first time.

Maybe this is a simple fix after all? I did see this behaviour occasionally in Jaunty (the stable version of Ubuntu), as well as the developer version I am currently using.
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby gabe » Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:46 am

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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby Alexander.Mitin » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:25 pm

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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby gabe » Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:49 am

I'll try it when I'm back in front of that machine.

It'd be great if you guys added a "linux tweaks" preference panel for stuff like this.
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby vampie » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:23 pm

I am running GWT designer perfectly with KARMIC ubuntu 9.10 beta...

please follow viewtopic.php?p=11548#p11548 and
make eclipse always on top... so you can get rid of popup windows open and close...
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby Eric Clayberg » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:09 pm

gabe wrote:It'd be great if you guys added a "linux tweaks" preference panel for stuff like this.

Maybe. This is really just for troubleshooting purposes only and not intended to be an ordinary preference.
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby mireia » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:52 am

Hi,

I have the same problem. Has anybody solve the problem? I need help.

Details:
WindowBuilder: 6.9
Eclipse version : 3.4
gwt : 1.5.3
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby Eric Clayberg » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:06 pm

Try WB 7.2, GWT 1.7.1 and Eclipse 3.5.
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby mireia » Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:13 am

Thanks!! Everything worked with WB 7.2, gwt 1.7 and eclipse 3.5.
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Re: Not working on Ubuntu Karmic

Postby Eric Clayberg » Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:52 am

mireia wrote:Thanks!! Everything worked with WB 7.2, gwt 1.7 and eclipse 3.5.

Glad to hear that worked for you.
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