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Re: [e4-dev] Results of using 4.0 SDK on a Mac
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Hello Phil,
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Phil Borlin <rancidfishbreath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some of the toolbar icons are not showing up: New, Debug, and Run to
> name a few.
This is mentioned on the self-hosting wiki page but there is no open bug about it.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Self_Hosting
> Perspectives cannot be closed
I've not tried closing perspectives yet since they've only been implemented in the last week or two. It not working sounds believable.
> and the drop down menu items don't function.
If you mean the stuff in the tool bar, then yes they won't do anything.
> The e4 file types such as xmi do not open the
> specialized editors I saw when trying previous versions of e4.
You'll need to install the EMF SDK and Tom's and/or Yves's editor if you don't want to use Notepad like me.
> Coolbar parts don't resize.
Coolbar parts?
> The perspectives are butting up right
> next to the coolbar (maybe this is intentional).
I can't comment on this since I'm not familiar with the design. This was just delivered last week so it may just be a temporary drop-in.
> When I tried the
> newest integration build (I20100526-2303) things were worse and now
> nothing shows up under package explorer and the file that was open now
> displays no content.
I think that's because of bug 314641. I was going to email the list to warn other people...guess I should've actually followed through with that thought.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=314641
> The new menu (from the menu bar) has no subitems
Yes, Lars has opened a bug about that.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=308573
> and I saw a couple NullPointerExceptions but I can't remember how to
> reproduce them.
I have an idea of what you're talking about but have not been able to reproduce it consistently yet.
> Is this
> a known state or would it be helpful if I sat down and filed a bunch
> of bugs?
Please feel free to open bugs as you see them. :)
Thank you very much for trying out the 4.0 SDK.
Regards,
Remy
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Remy Suen
Eclipse Platform/UI Committer
IBM Ottawa
613-356-5162