[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse 3.1.1 crashes when I go from the "We

[Astrid Sawatzky <assawatzky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Hairgrove wrote:
> In general, the mouse interaction in the Eclipse GUI is a bit strange on 
> my machine (Windows 2000 Prof., SP4 German). When I click on the 
> different buttons on the "Welcome" screen, nothing happens. Tooltips are 
> displayed when I move the mouse across the icons, but clicking them 
> (also double-clicking) has no effect.
>
> I noticed almost by chance the faintest hint of a selection rectangle 
> which seemed to move when I clicked the different symbols, so by hitting 
> "Enter" e.g. when "Overview" is selected, I can view that topic (it 
> would be nice if the rectangle were a solid color instead of something 
> almost invisible...)
>
> But when I do the same on the arrow in the upper right-hand corner to 
> "Go to the workbench", Eclipse crashes with exit code=1 and a little 
> dialog with configuration parameters.
>
> I am running the latest Java SDK from Sun (1.4.2-09). My Eclipse version 
> is 3.1.1 with build ID = M20050929-0840.
>
> Thanks!
could be helpful to know what config param are in that little dialog to 
help u out ;-)

there should be a log-file created, perhaps this will tell more about 
what happened.
freundliche  Gruesse astrid