Hey Ian, Just thought I'd mention that I tried something to repro your problem. Our plugin does not work if you're running Eclipse under a pre-1.5 JVM, and some of the symptoms that we've seen is that the plugin icons/menu contributions will not show up. However, we've only seen this when we've been using Eclipse's dev environment to debug the plugin.
I tried to repro this by running clean Eclipse 3.3 and Eclipse 3.4 installs with a 1.4 JVM, but Eclipse did not even run - it threw up an error dialog indicating that a 1.5+ JVM is required. So, it looks like a pre-1.5 JVM cannot cause this sort of problem with the plugin out in the field. Rajeev On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Rajeev Dayal <rda...@google.com> wrote: > Hey Ian, > > Thanks for the information. Responses inline: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Rajeev, >> Thanks for the response. >> >> When you tried to install it again, did you install it in a clean >>> version of Eclipse, or was it the version that you were using with all the >>> failed installation attempts? It may be the case that you need to uninstall >>> the plugin, and then try to reinstall it. Preferably, if possible, start >>> with a clean install of Eclipse and a clean workspace, and try and install >>> again (but follow the instructions in the FAQ entry mentioned above - they >>> will greatly speed up the install process). >>> >> >> It was a clean, new Eclipse installation. I was only trying to install the >> GEP and the GWT SDK, nothing else. Eclipse locked up showing 31% completed, >> nothing moving except the progress indicator (no actual progress, just >> animation). Cancel didn't do anything (except disable the cancel button) and >> after some time - in the region of 30 minutes - I went back and nothing had >> changed. There was no option but to kill it in task manager. >> > > This is definitely odd. It must have been some network problem, but I'm not > sure which side it occurred on. One thing I do know is that Eclipse does not > fail gracefully in such situations. Do you remember exactly what text was in > the dialog at the time? Was it saying something like "computing requirements > and dependencies", or was it saying "downloading", or maybe "installing"? > > >> >> The second attempt of the current series, it installed in 30 seconds or >> so. I'm not sure exactly, I was watching TV, but it wasn't long at all. >> >> Now if I go to Software Updates, Installed Software shows the GEP and GWT >> SDK as installed. Available Software shows the plugin (but no install option >> is available) and the AppEngine SDK. >> > > Does Installed Software also show the plugin as installed? Available > Software should really not have any of the components as installable, if > they've already been installed (unless you have the "Include items that have > already been installed" checkbox checked). > > > >> The IDE doesn't have the two icons I had when it finally installed last >> time, ordinary menu options are also not there (in File|New, or >> right-clicking a project - nothing new) >> > > Try going to Window -> Reset Perspective (or, on the Mac, Eclipse -> Reset > Perspective). Does that help? Also, do you see any errors reported in the > error log? Go to Window -> Show View -> Error Log (or, on the Mac, Eclipse > -> Show View -> Error Log) to display the error log view. > > >> >>> >>> I'm sorry that you had to go through all of this. Bad things can happen >>> when components are not properly installed, as you experienced. This should >>> not be the normal experience at all. Is your project/Eclipse back in a >>> working state? If not, let me know and I'll help you to get it back to >>> normal. >>> >> >> Yes, despite unchecking the project as a GWT one in the GEP options, and >> after the uninstall apparently working OK, there were still GEP changes in >> there stopping the project working. Having sorted that out, as I said, >> context assist didn't know about GWT classes. That is now fixed, too. >> >> I tried the -clean option (thanks Isaac) but unfortunately it didn't make >> any difference. That was after restarting Eclipse, then rebooting the >> machine. >> >> I'm not particularly worried about getting it working. As I said, I was >> only re-installing it in order to answer the questions I was asked before. >> > > Thanks for going through all of this in order to give us some useful > information. We appreciate it. > > >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ian >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
