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| Table Of Contents</h3> | |
| 1. Known Issues | |
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| 99.1 Known Issues</h3> | |
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| 99.1.1 Wheel Mouse</h4> | |
| SWT does not directly handle the extended messages sent by the wheel mouse. | |
| If the correct driver is installed for the wheel mouse, the extended messages are mapped to | |
| cursor operations that are supported. | |
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| 99.1.2 Resource usage on Windows 98</h4> | |
| Although SWT is not inherently a heavy consumer of Windows GDI resources, applications that make | |
| extensive use of images may potentially cause the system to become resource limited on Windows 98 | |
| and Windows Me. Efforts were made to minimize the impact of this in Eclipse, however, opening | |
| several perspectives can still cause it to happen. Further work in this area is ongoing. | |
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| 99.1.3 Available Colors on 8-bit Linux</h4> | |
| Typically, in Gnome Linux installs running with 8 bit plain 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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| 99.1.4 Motif Accelerators</h4> | |
| Keyboard accelerators on motif are sensitive to the state of all modifier keys such as the Caps Lock, | |
| Num Lock and Scroll Lock keys. For example, Ctrl 'S' is not the same as Ctrl 'S' with the Num Lock key on. | |
| If keyboard accelerators appear to not be working, please check the state of all other modifier keys. | |
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| 99.1.5 Printing Support</h4> | |
| Although printing is not used by Eclipse, SWT provides printing support on Win32 platforms. | |
| See org.eclipse.swt.printing for more information. | |
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| 99.1.6 Drag and Drop on Motif</h4> | |
| On Motif, SWT only supports dragging between windows running on the same system process. In particular, | |
| dragging a file between Eclipse and another application will cause the drop target application to hang. This is a result of | |
| a bug in the Motif libraries for applications that are running multi-threaded (i.e. XInitThreads), which we have not yet been | |
| able to workaround. | |
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| 99.1.7 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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