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Build Identifier: Eclipse RC2: I20100520-1744 I have a 64-bit machine with Windows XP and default browser IE6. When I use 32-bit SWT "Open link in New Window" works fine. Each call opens a new browser window with the selected link. When I switch to 64-bit SWT "Open link in New Window" doesn't work any more. Reproducible: Always
Do you see this in eclipse's Internal Web Browser view, or somewhere else? And you see the 32-/64-bit difference on the same 64-bit machine?
>Do you see this in eclipse's Internal Web Browser view, or somewhere else? I have a view with a browser widget. I'm using this view to show relevant content to users. >you see the 32-/64-bit difference on the same 64-bit machine? Yes, on the same 64-bit machine. I have a 32-bit and a 64-bit target. When I start the application with the 32-bit target and a 32-bit VM then "Open link in New Window" from my browser widget opens the link in an external IE6. Doing the same with a 64-bit target and a 64-bit VM doesn't work. My 32-/64-bit VM are jdk1.6 from SUN.
I've tried this on 64-bit XP+IE7 and 64-bit Vista+IE8 and they both work. I don't think there's a 64-bit XP with IE6 here to try on. Note that if you want your app to run on non-Windows platforms, or even on Windows with an SWT.MOZILLA-style Browser, that you cannot rely on getting these "pop-up" Browsers shown for free, you need WindowEvent listeners like in http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet270.java?view=co . As an experiment, can you take the linked Snippet270 and insert as the first line in its open() implementation: System.out.println("required? " + event.required); If you run this with 64-bit SWT is this println shown, and if so, what is it?
Thank you for the advice about WindowEvent listeners. >If you run this with 64-bit SWT is this println shown, and if so, what is it? required? false It seems to be an IE6 bug. I tried on a 64-bit machine with XP+IE8 and it works. I noticed that each call to "Open link in New Window" on a 64-bit machine, 64-bit SWT and XP+IE6 starts a 32-bit iexplore.exe process but no browser is shown.
Since this only fails on IE6 this can be closed as NOT_ECLIPSE. IE6 is an unusual IE version to have on 64-bit Windows in particular, and is decreasing every day, so I don't think it's worth trying to find a workaround for the IE problem at this point.
