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strange effect in eclipse help [message #146538]

Mon, 01 March 2004 11:09

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.please.com

Hi all,
im using Eclipse and i think it's very very good, but im having
problems with the online help.
When i press F1 the help correctly loads, showing all the stuff
i wanna see BUT if i switch window (i.e. to Eclipse itself or
to another program ) and then come back to the help window, i can
notice a strange graphic corruption.
You can see a sample here
http://utenti.lycos.it/ecio78/messedup.jpg

Im using Eclipse 2.1.2 on Windows 2000 so, does Eclipse
use IE to show up these help pages ? Is the problem related
to MS browser or is there something wrong in my Eclipse ?

Thanks in advance,
Norberto Carnelil

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146545 is a reply to message #146538]

Mon, 01 March 2004 11:15

Eclipse User

You are using a version of IE that is not supported.
IE 5.5 is the minimum required.
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=34920

HTH
Darins

"Norberto Carnelli" <nospam@please.com> wrote in message
news:c1vms0$c4l$1@eclipse.org...
> Hi all,
> im using Eclipse and i think it's very very good, but im having
> problems with the online help.
> When i press F1 the help correctly loads, showing all the stuff
> i wanna see BUT if i switch window (i.e. to Eclipse itself or
> to another program ) and then come back to the help window, i can
> notice a strange graphic corruption.
> You can see a sample here
> http://utenti.lycos.it/ecio78/messedup.jpg
>
> Im using Eclipse 2.1.2 on Windows 2000 so, does Eclipse
> use IE to show up these help pages ? Is the problem related
> to MS browser or is there something wrong in my Eclipse ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Norberto Carnelil
>

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146552 is a reply to message #146545]

Mon, 01 March 2004 11:24

Eclipse User

Additionnaly, you can look at this bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35009
The last comment includes a workaround

Hope this helps,

Jean

Darin Swanson wrote:
> You are using a version of IE that is not supported.
> IE 5.5 is the minimum required.
> See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=34920
>
> HTH
> Darins
>
> "Norberto Carnelli" <nospam@please.com> wrote in message
> news:c1vms0$c4l$1@eclipse.org...
>
>>Hi all,
>>im using Eclipse and i think it's very very good, but im having
>>problems with the online help.
>>When i press F1 the help correctly loads, showing all the stuff
>>i wanna see BUT if i switch window (i.e. to Eclipse itself or
>>to another program ) and then come back to the help window, i can
>>notice a strange graphic corruption.
>>You can see a sample here
>>http://utenti.lycos.it/ecio78/messedup.jpg
>>
>>Im using Eclipse 2.1.2 on Windows 2000 so, does Eclipse
>>use IE to show up these help pages ? Is the problem related
>>to MS browser or is there something wrong in my Eclipse ?
>>
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Norberto Carnelil
>>
>
>
>

--
"No brain, no headache"

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146593 is a reply to message #146552]

Mon, 01 March 2004 13:06

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.please.com

Thank you both for the precious help,
i have IE 5.0 (never updated it because i
use Mozilla browsers)

i'll update it :)

Jean Couillaud ha scritto:
> Additionnaly, you can look at this bug:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35009
> The last comment includes a workaround
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jean
>
> Darin Swanson wrote:
>
>> You are using a version of IE that is not supported.
>> IE 5.5 is the minimum required.
>> See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=34920
>>
>> HTH
>> Darins

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146642 is a reply to message #146593]

Mon, 01 March 2004 15:37

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: robwms63.yahoo.com

Why not just use Mozilla? It should work fine.

Norberto Carnelli wrote:

>
> Thank you both for the precious help,
> i have IE 5.0 (never updated it because i
> use Mozilla browsers)
>
> i'll update it :)
>
> Jean Couillaud ha scritto:
>
>> Additionnaly, you can look at this bug:
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35009
>> The last comment includes a workaround
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Jean
>>
>> Darin Swanson wrote:
>>
>>> You are using a version of IE that is not supported.
>>> IE 5.5 is the minimum required.
>>> See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=34920
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Darins

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146707 is a reply to message #146642]

Tue, 02 March 2004 04:18

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.please.com

Rob Williams ha scritto:

> Why not just use Mozilla? It should work fine.
>

you're right, but i dont think you can setup
Eclipse to point to Mozilla instead of IE when it
loads his help system (of course you can prolly do
it modifying eclipse sources, but i think it's not the
easiest solution :D)

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146749 is a reply to message #146707]

Tue, 02 March 2004 08:29

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nomail.nospam.nomail.net

Norberto Carnelli wrote:

> Rob Williams ha scritto:
>
>> Why not just use Mozilla? It should work fine.
>
> you're right, but i dont think you can setup
> Eclipse to point to Mozilla instead of IE when it
> loads his help system (of course you can prolly do
> it modifying eclipse sources, but i think it's not the
> easiest solution :D)

Of course you can use Mozilla :
-> Windows / Preferences / Help :
- check "Custom Browser"
- and fill in the "custom browser command"

With Eclipse 3.0M6, at least.

--
Emmanuel.

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146923 is a reply to message #146749]

Tue, 02 March 2004 10:20

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.please.com

Emmanuel Roubion ha scritto:

> Norberto Carnelli wrote:
>
>> Rob Williams ha scritto:
>>
>>> Why not just use Mozilla? It should work fine.
>>
>>
>> you're right, but i dont think you can setup
>> Eclipse to point to Mozilla instead of IE when it
>> loads his help system (of course you can prolly do
>> it modifying eclipse sources, but i think it's not the
>> easiest solution :D)
>
>
> Of course you can use Mozilla :
> -> Windows / Preferences / Help :
> - check "Custom Browser"
> - and fill in the "custom browser command"
>
> With Eclipse 3.0M6, at least.

You're right, same option present in Eclipse 2.1.2

Thank you very much ;)

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146972 is a reply to message #146923]

Tue, 02 March 2004 10:58

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.please.com

>>
>> With Eclipse 3.0M6, at least.
>
>
> You're right, same option present in Eclipse 2.1.2
>
> Thank you very much ;)
>

now the problem is finding the right commandline
option to tell firefox "open the site in a new
tab" and *not* on a new windows (i dont want 500
firefox window in my taskbar :D)

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #146989 is a reply to message #146972]

Tue, 02 March 2004 11:24

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nomail.nospam.nomail.net

Norberto Carnelli wrote:
>>>
>>> With Eclipse 3.0M6, at least.
>>
>> You're right, same option present in Eclipse 2.1.2
>>
>> Thank you very much ;)
>
> now the problem is finding the right commandline
> option to tell firefox "open the site in a new
> tab" and *not* on a new windows (i dont want 500
> firefox window in my taskbar :D)

According [1] and [2], I would try the following with Mozilla :
mozilla -remote openURL(%1l, new-tab)

Don't know if it works with Firefox (it should, IMHO)
Don't know either which window will open the new tab in case you have
multiple windows...

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #147013 is a reply to message #146972]

Tue, 02 March 2004 12:27

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-user.jibeinc.com

Norberto Carnelli wrote:

> now the problem is finding the right commandline
> option to tell firefox "open the site in a new
> tab" and *not* on a new windows (i dont want 500
> firefox window in my taskbar :D)

Get the Tabbrowser Extensions for Firefox - it makes that behavior (and
much more) configurable.
<http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#tbe>

HTH,
Eric
--
Eric Rizzo
Software Architect
Jibe, Inc.
http://www.jibeinc.com

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #147021 is a reply to message #146989]

Tue, 02 March 2004 12:34

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nomail.nospam.nomail.net

Emmanuel Roubion wrote:
> According [1] and [2], I would try the following with Mozilla :
> mozilla -remote openURL(%1l, new-tab)
>
> Don't know if it works with Firefox (it should, IMHO)
> Don't know either which window will open the new tab in case you have
> multiple windows...
>
> [1] http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html
> [2] http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

Oups, -remote seems to be working only on unix, sorry...
Give it a try tough, who knows ?

(and it was %1, not %1l of course...)

Re: strange effect in eclipse help [message #147140 is a reply to message #147021]

Wed, 03 March 2004 08:17

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam.please.com

Emmanuel Roubion ha scritto:

> Emmanuel Roubion wrote:
>
>> According [1] and [2], I would try the following with Mozilla :
>> mozilla -remote openURL(%1l, new-tab)
>>
>> Don't know if it works with Firefox (it should, IMHO)
>> Don't know either which window will open the new tab in case you have
>> multiple windows...
>>
>> [1] http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html
>> [2] http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
>
>
> Oups, -remote seems to be working only on unix, sorry...
> Give it a try tough, who knows ?
>
> (and it was %1, not %1l of course...)

Exactly, i had already tried it and it didnt work, btw
thanks for your interest, i'll try the extension
Eric Rizzo suggested in the other post

Norberto

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