GWT Designer crashes on Ubuntu [message #1068949] |
Sun, 14 July 2013 17:08  |
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There have been a number of posts on the GPE issue tracker, GWT Designer issue tracker, GWT issue tracker, and Google Web Toolkit Google Group over the last 7+ months about issues with WindowBuilder crashing Eclipse on Ubuntu.
There is a fix available which is mentioned here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-web-toolkit/WEwSlnqSDZM
The issue was reported in April 2013 and a fix posted by the reporter the next day on the GWT Designer issue tracker: https://code.google.com/p/gwt-designer/issues/detail?id=4
I've tested this and it works great for Eclipse 4.2.2, Oracle Java 7, GPE, and Ubuntu 13.04 x64.
Does this fix need to go into the GPE or WindowBuilder? Is the issue reported in the right location (it is still New and untouched/unaccepted)?
Is there another issue tracker for GWT Designer since the existing one appears to be abandoned?
[Updated on: Sun, 14 July 2013 18:52] by Moderator
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Re: WindowBuilder crashes on Ubuntu [message #1069021 is a reply to message #1068983] |
Sun, 14 July 2013 21:29  |
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GWTD is based on WB, but it also includes a lot of its own special code to handle GWT rendering in different environments. Unfortunately, that means it has to do some deep dark voodoo at the OS level to get rendered images of the GWT widgets. Under Linux, that usually means interacting with WebKit and the various Linux window managers. Those often change in unpredictable and non-backward compatible ways, so new versions of various Linux distros can easily "break" GWTD. Windows, in contrast, has very stable APIs and does not present a problem from release to release.
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