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Why is Eclipse "clicky"? [message #185182] Wed, 20 December 2006 19:34 Go to next message
Kai Middleton is currently offline Kai MiddletonFriend
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
This is driving me crazy:

When I'm in an editor window in eclipse, every time I use the mouse to
change my cursor position I get an audible click and the hourglass comes
up for a split second. My coworker who has the same version of eclipse
doesn't have this problem. Why is this and how can I turn it off?

It sounds like IE, how everthing you click on gives you that annoying
audible click from the speaker.

The problem isn't completely benign, I think, either. Earlier today
eclipse was going crazy on me. The mouse didn't work right at all. I
have a wireless keyboard and mouse combination (Microsoft Wireless Natural
Multimedia Keyboard and Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0) -- except that
I didn't like the mouse so I went back to my IBM mouse, a regular old
two-button plus wheel wired external mouse. (I have an IBM Thinkpad T60.)
I tried removing my mouse software, changing the batteries on the
keyboard and rebooting twice in order to get to the 90% functionality I
have now. But I've still got that super-annoying click. What to do.
Re: Why is Eclipse "clicky"? [message #185189 is a reply to message #185182] Wed, 20 December 2006 20:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

Kai,

I get a click like that when I have the Javadoc view open and I'm pretty
it is the "HMTL" widget that's making that noise. It is really
annoying, but when I don't want the noise, I just make sure the Javadoc
view isn't on top. I like my computer to be seen and not heard. :-) I
wonder if anyone knows how to just turn the noise off? Does this sound
like the same problem?


Kai Middleton wrote:
> This is driving me crazy:
> When I'm in an editor window in eclipse, every time I use the mouse to
> change my cursor position I get an audible click and the hourglass
> comes up for a split second. My coworker who has the same version of
> eclipse doesn't have this problem. Why is this and how can I turn it
> off?
> It sounds like IE, how everthing you click on gives you that annoying
> audible click from the speaker.
> The problem isn't completely benign, I think, either. Earlier today
> eclipse was going crazy on me. The mouse didn't work right at all. I
> have a wireless keyboard and mouse combination (Microsoft Wireless
> Natural Multimedia Keyboard and Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0) --
> except that I didn't like the mouse so I went back to my IBM mouse, a
> regular old two-button plus wheel wired external mouse. (I have an
> IBM Thinkpad T60.) I tried removing my mouse software, changing the
> batteries on the keyboard and rebooting twice in order to get to the
> 90% functionality I have now. But I've still got that super-annoying
> click. What to do.
>
>
>
Re: Why is Eclipse "clicky"? [message #185252 is a reply to message #185189] Thu, 21 December 2006 00:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Kai Middleton is currently offline Kai MiddletonFriend
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
You're right! I actually had the help desk guy come and turn of the
clicking:
Start
Settings
Control Panel
Sounds and Audio Devices
Sound tab
"Start Navigation" (in the long list)
(none)
Apply
But you're right about the javadoc. That occurred to me later. When I
switch to the console tab I don't get that any more. There was also a lot
of latency when I tried to move the cursor around with the arrow keys, end
key, etc. Thanks a lot for your help.

--Kai M.
Re: Why is Eclipse "clicky"? [message #185417 is a reply to message #185252] Thu, 21 December 2006 17:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: atoulme.intalio.com

I suppose that the HTML widget is actually calling the system browser,
so IE might be the cause of your problem after all. You can change that
by selecting Firefox in the General>Browser preferences.

Cheers,

Antoine

Kai Middleton wrote:
> You're right! I actually had the help desk guy come and turn of the
> clicking:
> Start
> Settings
> Control Panel
> Sounds and Audio Devices
> Sound tab
> "Start Navigation" (in the long list)
> (none)
> Apply
> But you're right about the javadoc. That occurred to me later. When I
> switch to the console tab I don't get that any more. There was also a
> lot of latency when I tried to move the cursor around with the arrow
> keys, end key, etc. Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> --Kai M.
>


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Why does Eclipse UI go crazy on me [message #185448 is a reply to message #185417] Thu, 21 December 2006 18:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Kai Middleton is currently offline Kai MiddletonFriend
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
Hmmm ... under
Preferences
General
Editors
Web Browser
I have these activated:
* use internal web browser
* Firefox
The description says "Add, remove, or edit installed web browsers. The
selected web browser will be used by default when Web pages are opened,
although some applications may always use the external browser."

I've changed the subject for this message because I'm having a deeper
problem. I think I identified the clicky business as the javadoc tab.
But I noticed that problem in the first place because I'm having a tougher
problem.

The UI goes crazy on me. I saw it happen today just out of nowhere. I
had been working for a while then I sat back to look at my code. All of a
sudden two paragraphs of code became highlighted and the UI no longer
responded properly. I had to shut down eclipse and restart it to get it
to work ... although sometimes shutting down doesn't help at all--I'll
restart and still the UI doesn't work properly. For instance, when I try
to move up and down by using the mouse on the scroll bar the bar doesn't
move at all and, rather, the mouse move causes text to be highlighted. Or
another time, the mouse cursor turned into a plus symbol with a box around
it (or something like that) and had a different behavior when I moused
over the directory tree. I'm thinking this is because I have a MS
wireless keyboard+mouse and I've taken the battery out of the mouse and am
instead using an IBM wired mouse. I'm still trying to work with the
drivers and such.

Any brilliant ideas on this? Anyone seen this before?
Re: Why does Eclipse UI go crazy on me [message #185585 is a reply to message #185448] Fri, 22 December 2006 23:00 Go to previous message
Kai Middleton is currently offline Kai MiddletonFriend
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
Ok, this was a hardware conflict. Replacing my MS wireless keyboard+mouse
combo with an older wired keyboard fixed it.
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