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Re: [udig-devel] FAQs?
Hmm. Just tested the OSX version and it works fine. I suspect that the problem still is MOZILLA_HOME and the view isn't showing up because of an exception loading the browser. Could be wrong though. Maybe I missed a plugin required by it on linux. What does the Welcome page look like to you? 

Jesse

On May 1, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:


Jesse Eichar wrote:

On May 1, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:

1. I don't get any information (no new tabs or windows appear)
  when I select the "Info" tool and click on a polygon.  Is
  this a known problem for Linux?
There's an issue with the browser integration on linux you have to set MOZILLA_HOME variable to something :P You should be able to find the instructions online. 

Thanks for such a quick response!

But I mean there is no "Information view" as Walkthrough 1 shows
on its page 29.  And there is no information view among the choices
in the menu appearing when I choose Show View from the Windows menu.
Is this really related to the browser integration problem?


Huh... No longer convinced



2. I cannot get the online help; I get a popup window titled
  "Problems Opening Link" containing the message "Unable to
  open web browser on {0}".  Is there some way to specify an
  external application (Firefox) as the web browser?
Hmmm. Eclipse allows you to do that but it seems we don't. Fixing MOZILLA_HOME should fix this. There is also a way you can specify the port of the server and then you could use firefox to hit that port and view the help... Mind you you'd still have to go to online help then open firefox. 

Does Eclipse have its own preferences file?

I modified my .profile to add
export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox
and also did
$ su
# cd /usr/lib/firefox
# ln -s firefox mozilla
Now I get log entries like this:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2007-05-01 15:17:28.307
!MESSAGE XPCOM error -2147221164
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error -2147221164
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.error(Browser.java:1328) [more...] 

I'm at a loss.  Is Firefox incompatible with Eclipse?


3. I don't have the ArcSDE plugin and I don't need it.  Can I tell
  uDig not to go looking for it, otherwise the log file gets lots
  of exception information about this?
This has been fixed for the next version. You can also just delete the net.refractions.udig.catalog.arcsde_* jar from the plugins directory. 

Worked like a charm.  Thanks!

4. I wish the layer style composer would allow an unlimited number
  of unique values rather than a maximum of 12.  Then I could export
  the SLD and customize it.  I don't want to group text values.
  Does this make sense?

Yeah this is a common request and we're working on it.


I guessed this might be on the to-do list.  For now I can use your
SLDs as models and generate appropriate SLDs.

Peter
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