Choose Panel problems

[Ray]

Hi,

I create my JPanels and insert into a JFrame using the Choose Panel option.
First problem isthat sometimes the list comes empty and after I restart Eclipse it comes back if I'm lucky. (Same thing happens with the choose bean)

The second problem I'm having is that if I make changes on the Panels and insert them again to the Frame, it remembers the old version and does not refresh my changes until I run the JFrame. and com back to designer view.

I hope somebody has some answers. Because I already spent too much time.

Thanks

[Bronek]

And - if you double click the class you managed to see - the form disapears (it should do so) but no class is selected (although the designer 'thinks' another way - the part of a panel where I want to put it is highlighted, put the mouse arrow looks like a road sign and clicking does nothing). It works fine if you click the 'OK' button. So - button good, double click - bad . The version is 2.1.1., build 2004.10.27

[Eric Clayberg]

And - if you double click the class you managed to see - the form disapears (it should do so) but no class is selected (although the designer 'thinks' another way - the part of a panel where I want to put it is highlighted, put the mouse arrow looks like a road sign and clicking does nothing). It works fine if you click the 'OK' button. So - button good, double click - bad . The version is 2.1.1., build 2004.10.27

I could not reproduce this. I could select a custom panel by either double-clicking or by selecting it and clicking on the OK button.

[Eric Clayberg]

I create my JPanels and insert into a JFrame using the Choose Panel option. First problem is that sometimes the list comes empty and after I restart Eclipse it comes back if I'm lucky. (Same thing happens with the choose bean)

Are any exceptions recorded to your Eclipse ".log" file?

The second problem I'm having is that if I make changes on the Panels and insert them again to the Frame, it remembers the old version and does not refresh my changes until I run the JFrame. and com back to designer view.

I am guessing that the Eclipe classloader is caching the class. Simply making changes to the class does not cause it to be reloaded (although maybe it should). Running the class does cause Eclipse to reload it.

[Ray]

The second problem I'm having is that if I make changes on the Panels and insert them again to the Frame, it remembers the old version and does not refresh my changes until I run the JFrame. and com back to designer view.

I am guessing that the Eclipe classloader is caching the class. Simply making changes to the class does not cause it to be reloaded (although maybe it should). Running the class does cause Eclipse to reload it.

What should I do? Right now, I removing the panels that have changes and readding again.

[fredatwork]

Ray,

I experienced exactly the same problem when I started using the Designer.

The problem is due to your Eclipse memory settings. These settings are set by the command line arguments you are using to start Eclipse.

When the list was empty, I did not set any startup arguments for the JVM of Eclipse. Eclipse was running the 2 MB of memory only.

Then, on the adevice of David, I changed these settings with the following command line arguments :
eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx256M

The values of the -Xms and -Xmx arguments depend on your memory available on your workstation. Check java help for a full understanding of theses arguments.

Once these arguments were set, I never experienced an "empty" bean list anymore.

Fred

[Eric Clayberg]

What should I do? Right now, I removing the panels that have changes and readding again.

The latest Swing Designer v2.1.1 build will now refresh the design view, if you edit any of the embedded panels.