[ptp-dev] More PTP Milestone1A problems

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried the PTP milestone1 build again
tonight and got a little farther with trying to create a new remote project.
This time when I tried to use the new remote project wizard, I was able
to choose the remote tools filesystem and click the browse button next
to the location text field on the first wizard page. This time, I was able
to select a connection name from the dropdown at the top of the browse
directory dialog, and then browse my home directory on my remote Linux
system and select a directory on hat system. However, as I tried to advance
thru the wizard pages I got a message in the PDE error log window that
the directory path I selected could not be opened, and the finish button
for the wizard never was enabled. The odd thing was that the pathname that
showed up in the error message had '\' as directory delimiters instead
of '/'. My eclipse GUI is running on a windows XP system so I'm wondering
if pathnames are being sent to the Linux system with '\' in the path name.

I wasn't sure why this was failing so
I downloaded the M1A build. Now when I select browse in the new remote
project wizard and then click a connection name in the browse directory
dropdown, I get a progress dialog but it freezes at about the halfway point
and the connection doesn't complete within a couple minutes. At that point
I canceled the progress dialog.

Another problem that I have been seeing,
and which still happens in the M1A build is that if I have a PE proxy running
when I shut down eclipse, then the next time I start Eclipse, where I have
a different IP address (because I've dropped my VPN connection and then
reconnected), then when PTP tries to restart the proxy, it fails and the
icon for that proxy is blue. At that point, I can't do anything with the
proxy. I shot down Eclipse and start again, and the proxy icon is now gray
(inactive). If I fix the local address for proxy connection in the resource
manager wizard so it matches my current IP address, I can start the proxy
and everything is fine. If there was a way to reset the state of the proxy
icons in the resource manager wizard so that it wasn't blue, I wouldn't
have to restart Eclipse to fix the problem.

I have what I think is a working RSE
connection. If I open the Remote System Explorer perspective and open Sftp
files or shell processes in the tree in the remote systems view, I can
see files and processes appear in the view. I switched to the PTP runtime
view and tried to create a resource manager using the same RSE connection.
The first problem is that if I change the remote service provider to RSE,
then the browse button next to the proxy path edit filed does't do anything.
If I select local as the remote service provider, then I get a file selector
dialog. I switched remote service provider back to RSE and pasted in the
full path name to my proxy and filled in the other fields in the wizard
and clicked finish. Then I tried to start the proxy. I get a progress dialog
for a couple seconds and then I get a popup dialog with a message 'Failed
to start resource manager' and the proxy icon goes to the blue state.

Dave