On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Francis Upton <
francisu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I saw Boris' comment below and realized that I sometimes have a situation on
> Ubuntu Linux (11.04) and running I20110512-2000 where the Debug variables
> view is empty (though it sometimes shows a single tree icon). Switching the
> content by selecting different stack frames does not fix it. I have to
> restart Eclipse.
> I have seen this before on Linux a few months ago (using 3.6, maybe 3.5).
> I'm not sure if this is a manifestation of the problem below or something
> else. And thinking of it, it's possible that it might be near a time when I
> am out of heap space.
> I can't make it happen at will and it's very intermittent. Is there anything
> I should look for? And does this seem like the same sort of issue?
> Francis
>
>
> Platform UI:
> - We have investigated the intermittent JFace test failures on the
> Mac. The underlying problem is that SetData events now happen later
> than they used to, triggered by updating the test machine to a more
> recent version of Snow Leopard. It is no longer the case that you can
> spin the event loop to make sure all visible items are materialized.
> We believe that the only code that relies on this is in our test
> suite. We also haven't seen any bugs coming in related to recent
> versions of Snow Leopard and virtual trees. Nevertheless, it would be
> good if everybody could be on the lookout for strange behaviour in
> virtual trees (e.g. in the Debug views) on Mac OS X 10.6.7. A proper
> fix for this would involve changes to the way the SWT event loop
> works, which is way too risky at this point, especially considering
> that we haven't seen any effects outside of our test suite. We have
> temporarily disabled the failing JFace tests.
