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'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #759925] Wed, 30 November 2011 10:21 Go to next message
Marc Smith is currently offline Marc Smith
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user domc posts in the newcomer forum (message #757625)
the gist is:

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when i run or try to debug a file, I get the following pop-up error message.

PROBLEM OCCURRED

'Animation start' has encountered a problem.
An internal error has occurred.
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seems a couple of others are having this issue, and was hoping to hear from someone who has made it past it, thx.

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Re: 'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #759926 is a reply to message #759925] Wed, 30 November 2011 10:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Marc Smith is currently offline Marc Smith
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using version 3.0.2 on OSX 10.7.2

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Re: 'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #761536 is a reply to message #759926] Tue, 06 December 2011 11:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Marc Smith is currently offline Marc Smith
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RESOLUTION (for me, anyhow):

seems unchecking the "Launch in Background" checkbox in the COMMON tab on the run configuration made this problem go away for me.

[Updated on: Tue, 06 December 2011 11:02]

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Re: 'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #793767 is a reply to message #759925] Wed, 08 February 2012 09:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dennis änger is currently offline Dennis änger
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I'm having the same problem.

Disabling "Launch in Background" is indeed a workaround, but no solution for me (I need the background launch when running phpunit tests using an external tool config).

Occurs in PDT 3.0.2 on MacOSX 10.6.8

Edit: I filled a bug on this: bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=370959

[Updated on: Wed, 08 February 2012 09:49]

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Re: 'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #882380 is a reply to message #793767] Wed, 06 June 2012 06:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Greg Amerson is currently offline Greg Amerson
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Hello,

I recently ran into this same problem with my own custom eclipse product distribution (custom name, custom .app folder, etc). The problem I had was this setting in the .ini file:
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
was pointing to a non-existent file (there was no ../Resources/Eclipse.icns in my custom product, the .icns file had another custom name.

So in your PDT installation on OSX open up the .app folder and then dig down into MacOS/Contents and look at the .ini file. make sure that the -Xdock:icon property is pointing to a valid/existing file. If you don't have that property then add it. Then relaunch Eclipse/PDT and try again.

Hope this helps.

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Re: 'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #897156 is a reply to message #759925] Sun, 22 July 2012 13:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sandip Shah is currently offline Sandip Shah
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Deselecting "Launch in background" works for me.

Adding an icon does not.

Sandip

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Re: 'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #972573 is a reply to message #882380] Mon, 05 November 2012 13:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jamil Missing name is currently offline Jamil Missing name
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Greg Amerson wrote on Wed, 06 June 2012 06:44
Hello,

I recently ran into this same problem with my own custom eclipse product distribution (custom name, custom .app folder, etc). The problem I had was this setting in the .ini file:
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
was pointing to a non-existent file (there was no ../Resources/Eclipse.icns in my custom product, the .icns file had another custom name.

So in your PDT installation on OSX open up the .app folder and then dig down into MacOS/Contents and look at the .ini file. make sure that the -Xdock:icon property is pointing to a valid/existing file. If you don't have that property then add it. Then relaunch Eclipse/PDT and try again.

Hope this helps.



This worked for me. Just make sure that you dig into the actual application to get to the Resources folder

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icon7.gif  Re: 'Animation Start' has encountered a problem (on launch) [message #1043343 is a reply to message #759925] Wed, 17 April 2013 11:29 Go to previous message
Nilo Cesar Teixeira is currently offline Nilo Cesar Teixeira
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The icon solution works perfectly for Mountain Lion and latest PDT at this time:

Eclipse for PHP Developers

Version: 3.0.2

Thank you!

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