At 11:27 PM 5/29/99 +0100, Thomas Nichols wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I cannot get JDB working properly with XEmacs - is this because of the
>problem described by Paul Kinnucan in a recent message on the JDE list?
>
>>> ... The current version of NT/XEmacs has a bug in its external process
>invocation code that prevents display of GUI Java apps launched by the JDE.
>I'd recommend NOT using NT/XEmacs for Java development until this issue is
>resolved. The XEmacs team has promised to alert me as soon as the bug is
>fixed. ... <<
>
>This was dated 11 May 1999 - can anyone offer a situation update? I don't
>need GUI support just yet.
>
>The symptoms are as described by others on NT/Emacs - no Jdb menu, no "=>"
>in the source panel. I get a message
>"Error: Could not find MainClass.java. See jde-db-source-directories."
>when I type "step" into the comint window (though otherwise it works fine,
>locals are viewable etc.) Entering
>jde-db-source-directories ^J
>into the scratch buffer prints
>"f:/InfoGain/JavaCourse/Examples/Polymorphism/"
>
This could be your problem. The value of jde-db-source-directories is
supposed to be a LIST of strings not a string. Note that using custom to
set JDE variables guarantees that you won't
make this type of mistake.
- Paul
