One word to describe Eclipse 8.5.1 Designer.
But my momma always told me that if you can’t say anything good, then simply don’t say anything.
I have been working with Eclipse Designer since January.
I will be installing the 8.5.1 basic this week.
The Eclipse Designer needs work and is not ready for prime time.
Subject: Hi again.
I see you are still having issues. In order to resolve them it would really help if you detailed the nature of the issue, steps to reproduce, exact version being used and any crash stacks where needed.
With some further detailed information we can progress further.
If you having issues every week (like you appear to be having) it might be better to open a PMR rather then using the forums.
Subject: Eclipse Design just equals stress
Not sure about weekly but mine is crashing and/or forcing a reboot several times daily. 8.5.1 and no I am not going to upgrade to 8.5.2 yet as experience tells me it will be worse.
I have a section at the bottom of a custom control that just screws up the display, you cannot add anything to it. Designer then decides it has had enough and boom. No point calling anyone at IBM as I do not have that long to waste in my valuable day. My company wonders why I continue to sing the virtues of traditional Notes development and how regardless of the marketing rubbish out of IBM xPages has a hell of a long way to go before it replaces traditional client dev.
Subject: Just to point out again.
In order to diagnose your issue we would need more details. Can you generate an NSD around the time of the occurrence.
Huge improvements between 8.5.2 and 8.5.1.
No point calling anyone at IBM as I do not have that
long to waste in my valuable day.
If you have a support contract you can open a PMR and an engineer gets back to you. You should not have to be left on hold. Or am I misunderstanding?
Subject: re: DDE
In my opinion, the goal of DDE was not so much to make a better Designer product, but to force-fit the existing Designer into the Eclipse shell, as well as to deliver XPages.
For those of us not enthused about Eclipse, and who aren’t necessarily coding XPage apps, IBM delivered nothing but bugs and regression.