[bettmenn]

Hello,

while developing a Swing Form with Matisse, i noticed that myeclipse was getting slower and slower.

Since this afternoon, eclipse completely froze when i tried to load the .form file in the matisse-editor.
i tried aroung with different versions of java (1.42 vs. 1.5), but had no success.

I finally looked the file up in a text editor and i noticed that the form file had 8mb!

This was due to some very large binary (ascii codes, in array form) RDAConnections (or something similar), which several JComboBox’es had as a <Property>. I then removed those properties, but now myeclipse does not load the form anymore.

the message i got from within myeclipse is:
The form file format is not recognized.
The form cannot be opened.

Please help me there, its really been a lot of work in this form and i do not want to do it all over again. The generated .java complement is still executing.

Maybe there is a way to repair the .form-file? Or to reverse-engineer it from the .java file? That would be great, thanks.

Best regards,

Florian

[bettmenn]

Oh i forgot:

Im Using MyEclipe Enterprise Workbench 5.1.0 GA

[bettmenn]

Maybe the specs of that .form XML-Format are available? Then I could try to fix it by myself.

Thanks!

[bettmenn]

I would really appreciate an answer of yours, even if it was a “no it cant be done, sorry”. After all, I am a paying Owner of the Enterprise Version, although my account is not linked to the license.

[Riyad Kalla]

Florian,
I am so sorry for missing this, can you export the project with this file in it and send it to us for testing? [email protected] ATTN Riyad and tell me which file has the problem and please include a link to this post for reference.

[bettmenn]

I did a complete rebuilt the form by hand in the meanwhile.

Thanks anyway.

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