[satha]

I have just installed eclipse 3.0 and Workbench 3.8.1. I get a wierd problem related to Microsoft Installer when I click the Design tab on HTML source code. Microsoft website says this is to do with Dynamic HTML editing and provides a solution to enable Dynamic HTML Editing.

msiexec /i 00000409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7 /qb- ADDLOCAL=HTMLSorceEditing

Even after this is done the problem still exists. This microsoft installer warning, generates an Internal error for the Visual Designer.

There is no problem with the Source and Preview tab. If I try a JSP source, I do not even get a Design tab , I only get a Source and Preview tab.

I’m runing eclipse on Windows NT.

The error generated in the log file is
!ENTRY com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner 1 1 Aug 26, 2004 17:33:04.950
!MESSAGE Could not retrieve Designer document.
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Failed to change Variant type result = -1
at org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OLE.error(OLE.java:332)
at org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.Variant.getAutomation(Variant.java:200)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner.WebDesignerBrowser.getDocumentAutomation(Unknown Source)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner.WebDesignerBrowser.setDesignModeProperty(Unknown Source)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner.WebDesigner.initDesignerControl(Unknown Source)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner.HtmlDesigner.init(Unknown Source)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner.htmleditor.HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.changeToDesigner(Unknown Source)
at com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner.htmleditor.HTMLMultiPageEditorPart.pageChange(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart$2.widgetSelected(MultiPageEditorPart.java:151)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:89)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:82)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:796)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:820)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:805)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:613)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.setSelection(CTabFolder.java:3053)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder.onMouse(CTabFolder.java:1917)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.CTabFolder$1.handleEvent(CTabFolder.java:287)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:82)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:796)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:2772)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2431)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1377)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1348)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:254)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:141)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:96)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:335)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:273)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:129)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:183)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:644)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:628)

Please help

Thanks
Santhosh

[Riyad Kalla]

Santhosh,
The JSP designer is not part of ME just yet, it will be soon though.

However I have asked the dev of this module to take a look at the problem you are hving.

[Greg]

Could you provide us with your version of Office and Internet Explorer? Are you letting the installer finish or are you cancelling it?

[satha]

Greg,

I’m using Office 2000 and IE 5.0.

I ‘m letting the Installer to carry on rather than cancel the operation. That is when it comes up with the Internal Designer Error.

Thanks
Sathosh

[Greg]

Sathosh,

Is it any html file that is causing the “Internal Error” or a specific one? If so could you post the html file that causes the error?

[satha]

Greg,

It was just a new HTML I tried to create.

I’m using an evaluation version of workbench that I’m using.

Thanks
Santhosh

[Greg]

Santhosh,

We don’t have any test computer in that configuration NT 4 + IE 5. Every test machine at Genuitec is running at least IE 5.5. So, upgrading your IE to the latest for your platform could fix the issue your seeing, but be careful that an IE update doesn’t affect other software installed on your system.

[allenh_aus]

Greg,
This may be old news already, but thought I’d let you know that I was experiencing the same problem as Santhosh. I was also using IE 5.0. I upgraded to 6.0 and the problem has disappeared.
Allen
ps. great product. One thing that I’m a little mystified by is why there are separate editors for JSP and HTML. Any news on when a design view for JSP will be available. Thanks.

[Greg]

Allen,

Thank you for the report. This is very useful information. We will investigate the incompatability with IE5.0. Also, the JSP design mode will be available in a future release in the 3.9 timeframe.

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