Dear Support,

The bug I posted with the JSP designer still exists in 4.0.3.

Specifically, in a simple JSP survey form where there are questions with either radio button answers, combo drop downs, or text boxes, when you delete a row or two of the page, MyEclipse turns the combox into edit boxes and has them fully selected (CTRL-A).

This behavior happens within MyEclipse. I don't even need to go to the browser to reproduce!

I'm deleting rows by right clicking a row and choosing Delete.

Is there any estimate when this delete bug will finally be fixed?

I was hoping by 4.0.3...

Thanks much in advance.

-- M

P.S. Also, MyEclipse takes **forever** to delete a row with all the crazy "pruning" and other screen messages (this is also a modal dialog so I'm stuck wating for MyEclipse).

Dreamweaver just deletes a row: click, you're done. MyEclipse takes over a minute each time.

Mork,
An example page would be invaluable, can you email it to support@myeclipseide.com ATTN Riyad with a link to this post so we know why we are getting it? I will try and delete a row and also reproduce the very long modifcation times and then I can file those bugs with an explicit test case for the devs, this will be a much faster track for getting these issues resolved.

Just sent it to you.

Look forward to your (email) reply.

Thanks.

-- M

Jim,
I got it and I'm working with it now, I have duplicates the unbearably long row removal problem and have filed it. However I am not able to reproduce the issue of having the combo boxes turn into normal text fields (I'm assuming this is what you meant by edit box?).

I Used right-click > Remove row for questions 4-8, and then removed row 2, and then removed row 17, so on the page I have a combobox still on row #3 with the text "comments" next to it. Can you tell me a series of row removals and exactly how you are removing the row and where you are clicking so I can try and reproduce that issue?

Will send you a step by step shortly.

Thanks.

-- M

Jim,
I got your email and followed the steps exactly as you specified them (erasing row 5 and 7) I even just tried erasing row 5 and after reloading the page wasn't able to get the dropdown boxes to change to multiple select list boxes (edit boxes).

Can you do me a favor and select the drop down box when it looks right, open properties and advanced, then check the "multiple" property, it should read false. Now do the steps you took to cause it to change to a multi select list box, and look at that property again, has it changed to "true" for multiple?

Let's try a new workspace too:

1) File > Switch Workspace > C:\tempworkspace, hit OK.
2) File > New Project > Web Project > TestWeb, hit OK.
3) Copy your BasicSurvey.jsp into the webroot, edit it with your steps, try and reproduce the problem. Can you?
4) If you can, can you double check the property value for the multiple attribute before and after, is it changing?

Lastly, if all else fails and assuming you have time (I know this is getting troublesome, thanks for hanging in there), can you try a clean download and install of Eclipse 3.1.1 SDK with MyEclipse 4.0.3 all freshly installed with a clean new workspace?

Additionally if you find another way to reproduce the problem let me know and I will continue to work with this demo file you sent me until I can.

Multiple property is still False when it's an Edit box.

If I switch workspaces as you noted below, I'm then using Eclipse, not MyEclipse.

Do you get Eclipse instead of MyEclipse when you switched workspaces as you noted below?

I have recently downloaded a fresh 3.1.1 and MyEclipse 4.0.2 and that made no difference.

Sigh.

-- M

Mork,
If you switch workspaces you will need to reopen the MyEclipse perspective, I don't understand the "I'm then using Eclipse, not MyEclipse". Switching workspaces won't uninstall MyEclipse, it is installed as an Extension against your base Eclipse install. Your layout/persective will certainly look different as it resorts to all default settings, but you should be able to still create an example web project as I outlined above.

Sorry, I wasn't thinking.

I was just afraid that seeing the Eclipse perspective instead of MyEclipse might be another side-effect. I changed the perspective, no problem.

In any case, it made no difference in the new workspace I created in C:\TEMP. When I saved and re-loaded the page, I got edit boxes not combos.

It's hard to believe you can't reproduce this behavior.

I'm going to email you the temporary perspective I created with the eidt boxes already created by MyEclipse (from the combos).

I created the temporary perspective in C:\TEMP.

Hope this helps...

-- M

Thank you for the additional files, I'll try again on my home machine to see if I can get it to break.

It's easy to break.

Here's what I did since last night.

On a new computer (one that never had Eclipse or MyEclipse installed) I:

Installed Eclipse 3.1.1.
Installed MyEclipse 4.0.3.
Created a new Web project.
Added the Basic Survey page.
Deleted rows 5 and 7 in the JSP designer (combos initially).
Saved the page and exited it.
Re-loaded the page into the JSP designer.

Viola!

SAME BUG!!!! --> Edit boxes where combos should be.

You must be able to reproduce this bug. I've been able to do it on two machines simply.

Hope this additional information is useful.

-- M

Jim,
I was finaly able to reproduce this, it does infact look like something is going on. Thank you for the additional clarification, odly enough I still can't reproduce this on my work machine but I can at home.

Jim,
Quick update, the first bug with the slow row deletes has been fixed, what used to take a minute should take 3-7 seconds now. Additionally the other problem of changing to list boxes is targetted for 4.1, so progress are being made on these bugs, sorry for the inconvenience in the mean time.


One last thing I wanted to check with you. Once you reopen the page, and the list boxes are shown instead of the drop downs, if you then restart MyEclipse, do they go back to looking the way they should?

Hi,

I'm glad you were able to reproduce the problems.

To answer your question, once MyEclipse changes the combos into list boxes (sorry for calling these "Edit boxes" all this time...), they stay that way.

Thanks for all your help.

I'll be looking forward to testing 4.1 when available.

Thanks again!!!

-- M

This issue has been addressed in the upcoming 4.1M1 release. It should be out soon. We are starting to test release canidates for 4.1M1 today.