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Bug 23576

Summary: [Welcome] Editor View not displaying properly
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Colin Goldberg <coling>
Component: UIAssignee: Andrew Irvine <airvine>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: P3 CC: xmehaut
Version: 2.0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows NT   
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Screen snapshot showing Editor View as per bug reported
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Snapshot of Eclipse Help->About window showing same problem none

Description Colin Goldberg CLA 2002-09-13 15:23:19 EDT 
(I am a newbie - please excuse any errors in terminology)

Version 2.0.1 - Win NT4

The (text) editor view (upper right rectangle, with "Welcome" in the title on
startup) does not display properly. 

The heading "Eclipse Platform" appears correctly. After this, the following is
displayed (Each -> below represents an arrow icon which is displayed):

T
T

-> I
   T
   a

-> P
   A
   a

   T
   b
   i

-> C
   Y
   a
   T

   O
   Y
   y
   a
   f

(etc..)

It looks like display width = 1 ...

(Sorry I cannot be more articulate. I could send a gif which shows the display,
if needed.)
Comment 1 Kai-Uwe Maetzel CLA 2002-09-18 12:46:18 EDT 
*** Bug 23212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Colin Goldberg CLA 2002-09-18 14:03:12 EDT 
Created attachment 2001 [details]
Screen snapshot showing Editor View as per bug reported
Comment 3 Kai-Uwe Maetzel CLA 2002-09-27 13:46:37 EDT 
WelcomeEditor. Moved to Platform UI.
Comment 4 Andrew Irvine CLA 2002-10-01 13:14:13 EDT 
Which build were you using (Help -> About Eclipse).
I have not been able to reproduce the issue on any platform.  Are you still 
experiencing the problem?
Comment 5 Colin Goldberg CLA 2002-10-01 13:32:43 EDT 
Created attachment 2085 [details]
Snapshot of Eclipse Help->About window showing same problem
Comment 6 Andrew Irvine CLA 2002-10-01 14:06:56 EDT 
Did you overwrite an existing eclipse installation?  Do you remember which 
version you downloaded?  The timestamp of the files in the eclipse directory 
may be helpfull here.

When downloading new versions of eclipse, do not overwrite an existing 
installation.
Comment 7 Colin Goldberg CLA 2002-10-01 14:17:40 EDT 
The directory was emptied before the new release was installed.

Timestamp(s): 8/29/02 7:01pm
Comment 8 Andrew Irvine CLA 2002-10-01 15:17:26 EDT 
I installed eclipse R2.0.1 (Thu, 29 Aug 2002 -- 18:28 (-0400)) on Win NT4.0 
with no issues.

Assuming you have decoupled your workspace from your eclipse install directory 
I would recommand re-installing (rename old eclipse directory).  Use the -data 
option on the command line to point to your workspace.  For example:

d:\ide\eclipse -vm d:\jdk\ibm\jdk1.3.1\jre\bin\java -data d:\ide\workspace-
R2.0.1 -showlocation

The -showlocation will place the location of your workspace in the title bar.


If you could provide more information on how you reproduced this problem I can 
investigate further.  From what I can tell a clean installation works fine.