[JVM]

MyEclipse on my machine is behaving strangely, after I use it for a while it won’t display the proper character for what I press on the keyboard.

i.e. if I type curly braces into this window I get {}, but if I do the same key-presses in MyEclipse I get ¨Ç

When I type…

? I get É
/ I get é
” I get É
‘ I get é
< I get ‘
> I get ”

A restart of MyEclipse fixes it for a while.

Ocasionally everything will go back to working on its own. Sometimes the characters change to something different, so if I figure out that tilde is now mapped to forward slash and start using tilde, eventually tilde will be mapped to something else…

This is my on my new box at work running Windows Vista. I thought it may be memory settings, but I added -vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:PermSize=64M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M to the startup parameters, and I still had the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[Loyal Water]

Jeremy,
This is a very strange issue. Can you go to MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details and paste the information here for me.

[Ton Huisman]

Do you have a ‘strange’ keyboard layout installed in your Windows settings?

On Vista you should be running ME 7.0, the 6.5 release is problematic because of it’s Eclipse 3.3 foundation, where ME 7.0 is built on top of Eclipse 3.4

HTH
Ton

[JVM]

@huisma13 wrote:

Do you have a ‘strange’ keyboard layout installed in your Windows settings?

On Vista you should be running ME 7.0, the 6.5 release is problematic because of it’s Eclipse 3.3 foundation, where ME 7.0 is built on top of Eclipse 3.4

HTH
Ton

No funky keyboard layouts, and I switched from a wireless to a wired keyboard with the same behaviour.

I am running

MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench

Version: 6.0.1 GA
Build id: 6.0.1-GA-200710

I’ll install 7.0 (downloading now) and see if it does the same thing.

JVM

[JVM]

@support-nipun wrote:

Jeremy,
This is a very strange issue. Can you go to MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details and paste the information here for me.

Sorry, email was down this morning and I couldn’t get to my password email 😛

*** Date:
Friday, October 17, 2008 3:15:56 PM EDT

** System properties:
OS=WindowsVista
OS version=6.0
Java version=1.5.0_11

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 6.0.1 GA
Build id: 6.0.1-GA-200710

*** Eclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench

Version: 6.0.1 GA
Build id: 6.0.1-GA-200710

Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.3.1.R33x_r20070911-_19UEkpF-B7Uh2hKy75y
Build id: M20070921-1145

Eclipse RCP

Version: 3.3.1.R33x_r20070802-8y8eE8sEV3Fz0z0GlHJrXvTAUS
Build id: M20070921-1145

Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.3.1.r331_v20070629-7o7jE72EDlXAbqAcnbmyg1rf8RIL
Build id: M20070921-1145

Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Version: 3.3.1.R33x_r20070802-7N7M3D1VIA_52JsDFsEC
Build id: M20070921-1145

Eclipse Project SDK

Version: 3.3.1.R33x_r20070802-7M7J78_mu1mnlRa7A4Ns52XeZ6D0
Build id: M20070921-1145

Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework

Version: 3.3.1.v20070814
Build id: 20070814-1555

Eclipse startup command=-os
win32
-ws
win32
-arch
x86
-showsplash
-launcher
C:\Adjuvant Informatics\MyEclipse 6.0\eclipse\eclipse.exe
-name
Eclipse
–launcher.library
C:\Adjuvant Informatics\MyEclipse 6.0\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.1.R33x_v20070828\eclipse_1020.dll
-startup
C:\Adjuvant Informatics\MyEclipse 6.0\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20070828.jar
-exitdata
1838_e8
-vm
C:\Adjuvant Informatics\MyEclipse 6.0\jre\bin\javaw.exe

[Loyal Water]

Can you upgrade to 6.5.1 and check if this issue gets resolved. Im not sure what could be causing this.

[JVM]

This behaviour started to occur in Firefox as well, so I found some forumns that suggested that ALT-SHIFT was a toggle between the two modes, typing ?/{} vs Éé^¨.

Problem:
Eclipse types the wrong characters, it won’t type question marks, forward slashes, backward slashes, curly braces, greater than or less than signs.

This appears to only be an issue on Eclipse running in Windows Vista.

Resolution:
Type ALT-SHIFT in Eclipse to toggle between typing the proper characters and the other characters.

Thanks for all the help,.

Jeremy

[Loyal Water]

Thank you for posting this information.

[Ton Huisman]

Ah, so it’s a Windows Keyboard configuration ‘problem’ after all… or it wouldn’t have happened on Firefox as well

HTH
Ton

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