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| <td BACKGROUND="workbench.gif"><b>Eclipse Project SDK R2.0 - SWT Release | |
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| Notices</h3> | |
| (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2002. All Rights Reserved. | |
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| Table Of Contents</h3> | |
| 1. Known Issues | |
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| 1 Known Issues</h3> | |
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| 1.1 Available Colors on 8-bit Linux</h4> | |
| Typically, in Gnome Linux installs running with 8 bitplain visuals (i.e. 256 color mode), before the | |
| Eclipse application is started, you already do not have any free colors. This may mean that Eclipse | |
| is unable to allocate the default widget background color causing it to display a white background. | |
| The functionality, however, is not affected. | |
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| 1.2 Printing Support</h4> | |
| The X printing extension implementation on Linux is currently disabled because | |
| it can take up to 7 seconds to determine that the X print server is not running. | |
| Until this is rectified, <code>Printer.getPrinterList()</code> will always return | |
| an empty array on the Linux platform.</dd> | |
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| 1.3 Disposing in a Focus Event</h4> | |
| Applications should not dispose widgets in focus changing events. Doing so on Motif may cause Eclipse to terminate, | |
| since Motif accesses the disposed widget within their internal focus change event handler. | |
| Similar but less serious issues exist on Windows such that occasionally an SWT exception can be thrown. | |
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| 1.4 List and ComboBox on Windows NT</h4> | |
| On Windows NT only, you should avoid creating items in a List or ComboBox with strings longer than 1000 characters. | |
| Doing so may result in a General Protection Fault. This has been fixed in more recent versions of Windows. | |
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| 1.5 BiDi Support</h4> | |
| The StyledText widget now provides bidirectional language support for Hebrew and Arabic locales. | |
| Currently, this support is available only on win32, and has several known problems. It should be | |
| considered to be a preliminary implementation only. | |
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| 1.6 Cursor constructor arguments</h4> | |
| In the constructor Cursor(Device device, ImageData source, ImageData mask, int hotspotX, int hotspotY), | |
| when both a source and mask argument are specified (i.e. mask is not null), the meaning of the two arguments | |
| is reversed. That is, the "mask" argument should be the source image and the "source" argument should be | |
| the mask image. For a description of this issue see bugzilla report #4809. | |
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| 1.7 ToolBar on Windows</h4> | |
| On Windows, you must create all tool bars with the FLAT style bit set. If you do not do this, | |
| the "hot" (rollover) images of <em>all</em> toolbars may display incorrectly. | |
| This will be fixed in a future release. | |
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| 1.8 Non ASCII strings on Linux</h4> | |
| On Linux RedHat 6.2 only, you will not be able to display text that contains non | |
| ASCII characters. This limitation is not present on Linux RedHat 7.1 or higher. | |
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| 1.9 Using J9 VM on Photon and AIX</h4> | |
| On Photon and AIX, the SWT library will not be found when running with | |
| the J9 VM (version 1.5). This is a bug in the J9 classes library. You | |
| can workaround this problem by adding the SWT library directory to your | |
| load library path. | |
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| 1.10 Javadoc not consistent across platforms</h4> | |
| Because of a bug in the way we updated the javadoc in our source code, | |
| the javadoc for protected methods is not consistent across platforms. | |
| The javadoc for the Windows platform, which is used to generate the | |
| documentation that appears in the Platform Plug-in Developer guide, | |
| is the definitive source. This will be fixed in a future release. | |
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| 1.11 JAWS requires MSAA for List Views to read checkboxes in Tables</h4> | |
| In order for JAWS to detect the checkbox information in Tables, | |
| MSAA support for List Views must be activated as follows: | |
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| <li>Open Eclipse and hit INSERT + F2. | |
| <li>In the "Run JAWS Manager" dialog select "Configuration Manager". | |
| <li>In the "Jaws Configuration Manager" that opens up, select "Set Options" and then select "Advanced Options". | |
| <li>Check "Rely on MSAA for List views". | |
| <li>Hit the OK button. | |
| <li>Choose File -> Save from the menu bar. | |
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| 1.12 No accelerators or mnemonics on Solaris</h4> | |
| The Solaris implementation of Motif has a long standing bug w.r.t. adding and | |
| removing accelerators and mnemonics. The behavior is such that, the time to do | |
| so becomes increasingly longer each time it occurs, to the point that, in | |
| Eclipse's case, it can take more than a minute to switch between editors and | |
| views. Because of this, accelerators and mnemonics are explicitely ignored on | |
| Solaris. | |
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| 1.13 Combo boxes with multi-line items on Linux/Motif</h4> | |
| The Linux implementation of Motif has a bug that causes program execution to terminate | |
| if the value of an editable Combo is set through Combo.setText(String) to a string | |
| that contains five or more newline characters. | |
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