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| author | mkersten | 2005-11-16 03:30:54 +0000 |
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| committer | mkersten | 2005-11-16 03:30:54 +0000 |
| commit | 5d632985d3b235f0d47e092dca4db9420d15c690 (patch) | |
| tree | 44e25affff885401627c9608631f7af632589bb5 /org.eclipse.mylyn.help.ui | |
| parent | 5d6e360da2c709143e27990d441c29cd03709269 (diff) | |
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Progress on: add faq entry on bad eclipse version
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diff --git a/org.eclipse.mylyn.help.ui/doc/faq.html b/org.eclipse.mylyn.help.ui/doc/faq.html index 8468e6e21..a96d5908f 100644 --- a/org.eclipse.mylyn.help.ui/doc/faq.html +++ b/org.eclipse.mylyn.help.ui/doc/faq.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html> <head> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) IBM Corporation and others 2000, 2005. This page is made available under license. For full details see the LEGAL in the documentation book that contains this page." > - <link rel="stylesheet" href="book.css" charset="ISO-8859-1" type="text/css"> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://eclipse.org/mylar/style.css" charset="ISO-8859-1" type="text/css"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title> @@ -11,25 +11,60 @@ </head> <body> <h1> + Mylar Frequent Asked Questions</h1> - <h3>What platforms are supported?</h3> - <p>Mylar supports Eclipse 3.1 final and Eclipse 3.2 milestone releases. - For the time being Mylar <i>only runs in a Java 5 VM</i>, but we are - exploring support for JDK 1.4 VMs.</p> - <h3>How do I stop declarations from showing up in the Package Explorer?</h3> - If you don't like Mylar's constant showing of Java members in the + <p>For supported platforms and known limitations please see + <a href="http://eclipse.org/mylar/dl.php">http://eclipse.org/mylar/dl.php</a> </p> +<p><b>Contents</b></p> +<ul> + <li><a href="#install-failure">Why does Mylar fail to install?</a></li> + <li><a href="#filtering-declarations">How do I stop declarations from showing up in the Package Explorer?</a></li> + <li><a href="#active-search-empty">Why does nothing show up in the Active Search or Active Hierarchy?</a></li> +</ul> +<h3><a name="install-failure">Why does Mylar fail to install?</a></h3> +<p>The most likely reason is that you are using an <b>incompatible VM </b>(e.g. JDK +1.4), in which case you'll errors like the following in your log file. To +check JDK version that Eclipse was launched with to to Help -> About Eclipse SDK +-> Configuration Details and verify that the java.vm.version is 1.5. Mac +users should refer to the last +<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=116347#c4">bug 1163477</a> +for instructions on how to change the 1.4 default.</p> +<p> +<pre> Root exception: + java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/eclipse/mylar/tasklist/MylarTasklistPlugin + (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)</pre> +</p> +<p> +This can also be the result of using an <b>incompatible version of Eclipse</b> +(e.g. a 3.2 version installed into a 3.1 Eclipse), in which case you'll see +errors like the following in your <workspace>/.metadata/.log file:</p> +<p> +<pre> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: + org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.FilteredTree.getFilterControl()Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Text; +</pre> +</p> +<p>In this case you need to uninstall the old version of Mylar using Help -> +Software Updates -> Manage Configuration. You need to first Disable on all +Mylar features by right-clicking them, allow Eclipse to restart after the last +is disabled, and after restart. Then ensure that the 3rd toolbar button is +pressed (figure below) so that you see the disabled features to uninstall, and +Uninstall them using the popup menu. Note that manually removing the plug-ins +and features can lead to configuration errors. After uninstalling update Eclipse +by adding the correct update site specified at: + <a href="http://eclipse.org/mylar/dl.php">http://eclipse.org/mylar/dl.php</a> </p> +<p> +<img border="0" src="images/faq/eclipse-manage-configuration.gif" width="679" height="335"></p> + +<h3> </h3> +<h3><a name="filtering-declarations">How do I stop declarations from showing up in the Package Explorer?</a></h3>If you don't like Mylar's constant showing of Java members in the Package Explorer, select the drop-down menu, then "Filters..." and enable the "Mylar Java Declarations Filter". It will then stick in the menu in case you want to toggle between modes.<p> <img border="0" src="images/filtering-declarations.gif" width="441" height="211"></p> - <h3> - Why does nothing show up in the Active Search or Active Hierarchy?</h3> - <p> +<p> + </p> + <h3><a name="active-search-empty">Why does nothing show up in the Active Search or Active Hierarchy?</a></h3><p> As you work and elements become landmarks (bold decoration), and these elements populate the Active Search and Active Hierarchy views. To force an element to populate the views manually make - it a landmark by right-clicking or hitting Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up Arrow. </p> - - </body> -</html> - + it a landmark by right-clicking or hitting Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up Arrow. </p></body></html>
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