[frosted]

The designers that are included with MyEclipse are utilizing like 99% of my resources and running an ant job with one of the files open using the designer is utterly painful. Is there aw ay to just have an editor with syntax highlighting and none of the other validation/design stuff that i really don’t need? All I want is syntax highlighting.

[Riyad Kalla]

Frosted,
This forum is not for venting, it is for asking for help. We are happy to help, just don’t get too carried away with the venting. You can send us hate mail to support@genuitec.com if you need to vent.

Now, on to your problem. As a first step, follow this tip and restart and see if that helps: http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2+file-viewtopic-t-10087.html

Designers are expensive (memory and processor wise) and giving Eclipse not only enough heap space, but permSpace in the VM is important, especially with such a large platform as Eclipse.

Now assuming you make the changes above and the designers continue to suck down the CPU cycles, the next thing we need to look at is your install. If you have incompatible versions of Eclipse and MyEclipse running or even separate installs of GEF or EMF in your Eclipse plugins dir, all of these issues can cause the designers to do what you are saying. It boils down to API incompatabilities and the designers flipping out and throwing exceptions like a crazy man.

If you continue to have problem and we need to address the install, please copy and paste the result of MyEclipse > About > Configuration Summary for me so I can see the versions of everything you have installed.

[csell]

Riyad,

what exactly makes you qualify frosted’s statements as “venting”? All I read is that he is having problems with the designers, which he doesnt really need.
Let me add that although I dont have the exact same problem as frosted, I would also cast my vote for a switch that completely disabled all graphical designers, like the one for struts-config.

regards,
Christian

[Riyad Kalla]

Christian,
His post was *heavily* edited from what he originally wrote.

I would also cast my vote for a switch that completely disabled all graphical designers, like the one for struts-config.

Can you clarify what you mean here, what switch do you mean for Struts? Also what do you mean by disabling all the designers? You just don’t want the annoyance of seeing any of them or you mean something else?

[csell]

Hello Riyad,

the struts designer can be switched off in the preferences. I would like to have the same for jsp’s, to avoid the additional load time for the graphical JSP designer, which I dont use at all

thats all
Christian

[Riyad Kalla]

If you are referring to the HTML-based designers, just open them with the ‘classic’ editor, while the Design tab is still there, no resources are spent creating it until you click it.

Were you meaning a different designer?

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