Re: [udig-devel] FAQs?

[Richard Gould <rgould@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have a look at this link here:

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux

Hope that helps. I have not had success with getting it to work with Firefox, but it works with the Mozilla Suite without a problem.

Richard

On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:56:21 -0400
"Peter N. Schweitzer" <pschweitzer@xxxxxxxx> 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?
> 
> >> 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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