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Hello, My Eclipse isn't working properly [message #1835362]

Tue, 01 December 2020 17:25

liz nori

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2020

Junior Member

Hello all,

I just downloaded the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers recently 2020-09 ( I have used it in the past on my previous device.) I had it working correctly but I had wanted to make a text-based game that had a pop-out application. I was following a tutorial by RYIsnow and he had designed a title page only using code, here's what the code sort of looked like ( I had deleted it because I thought that there was an issue with my software)

(after imports and public class etc,)

public Game(){
window = new JFrame();
window.setSize(800,600);
window.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_etc);
window.getContentPane().setBackground(Color.black):
window.layout etc
window.visible true etc
con = window.getContent();

titleNamePanel = new JPanel(); ( just background)
titleNameLabel = new JLabel(); (just text)
startButtonPanel = new Panel(): (just background) ( in blue so that it would show up)
startButton = new JButton(); ( text and background)
(I did the same/similar steps as window for all with black background and white text. )

then I added titleNameLabel to its panel
and startButton to its panel
and those panels to containers.

when I ran it, it had just a black background. I changed the colors to be different from each other and it showed up but I had wanted it to look nicer so I tried to download window builder (help> download new software > general software > everything below SWT Designer.)
but this had not worked and I could not open the design tab. ( I have gotten this to work on my previous device but I couldn't remember what I had done to make it work.
It had made my projects show up as a gray screen (SWT Application window).

If someone knows the solution to this please let me know!

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Re: Hello, My Eclipse isn't working properly [message #1835365 is a reply to message #1835362]

Tue, 01 December 2020 19:05

Nitin Dahyabhai

Messages: 4044
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Whatever those attachments are supposed to convey, you might want to consider changing them out for simple images. From
what's written, I also can't tell what you're asking about--are you missing a Design tab, or is it there and showing up as gray? And
is that the actual source code you're editing that turns up gray?

Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform

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Re: Hello, My Eclipse isn't working properly [message #1835978 is a reply to message #1835365]

Thu, 17 December 2020 16:05

liz nori

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2020

Junior Member

Hi,
Sorry about the attachments and the late reply, I'm missing a design tab so I was typing in the code and when I would run the code it would show up as gray. It only seemed to be the code that two jpanels had BLACK as the set color. I think it should both work even if they are the same color but I'm not sure.

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