[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-482249 ] App Hangs at Splash Screen

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Bugs item #482249, was opened at 2001-11-15 12:27
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Category: editor core
Group: normal bug
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Chris Heady (neut6o1)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: App Hangs at Splash Screen

Initial Comment:
I left Jedit 3.2.2 on overnight (using windows 2000), 
I tried to open a file and the entire interface froze, 
and it never came back. I then forced it to end the 
app through the task manager (it had 40Megs allocated 
to it). I then tried to open the application and it 
stopped at the splash screen and would not load the 
program.

This has happened once before, and I tried to remove 
jedit from my system. Then I installed jedit 3.2.2 
again and when I started up the app, it still froze at 
the startup screen. Then I deleted everything that had 
to do with Jedit including the .jedit folder in 
the "documents and settings" folder, and when I 
reinstalled it finally worked. But then it happened 
again as I explained in the first paragraph. I have 
included the activity.log file.

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>Comment By: Slava Pestov (spestov)
Date: 2002-01-25 16:19

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property type casting error -- fixed in 4.0

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Comment By: Chris Heady (neut6o1)
Date: 2001-11-20 17:08

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Ok, the connection problem I was having went away, I think 
it must have been my connection here at work. So I have 
installed all the plugins I wanted. But I still am curious 
how to add the command line parameter to jedit. If anyone 
can let me know, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Comment By: Chris Heady (neut6o1)
Date: 2001-11-19 10:46

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Hello jgellene,

Thanks for your suggestions. I tried deleting recent.xml
(didn't work) then properties. Deleting properties got me 
past the splash screen and into the application. However, 
when I went to add back my plugins, it tried to connect to 
the jedit host, but failed. So I cannot add the plugins. I 
have included another activity log that shows what happened.

Where do I put the command line parameter for jedit. I use 
the windows executable, so using a -mx on that I believe 
will not work as it is not a java app. Which file should I 
be placing the command line parameter on.

Thanks for the help, you were very responsive.

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Comment By: John Gellene (jgellene)
Date: 2001-11-15 13:10

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I've looked at your Activity Log. The freeze at startup is 
probably caused by the contents of one of your user 
settings files contained in C:\Documents and 
Settings\cheady\.jedit.  Likely suspects would be 
recent.xml and properties.  Delete recent.xml, then try to 
restart jEdit.  If that doesn't work, do the same with 
properties.

The overnight freeze is the result of resources leaking 
through the Windows peer classes underlying the Swing API.  
Besides not leaving jEdit running overnight, the best way 
to prevent this from occurring is to increase heap memory 
allocated by the Java application loader.  Use the -mx 
command line parameter to increase heap size with either -
mx32m or -mx48m.  The parameter must be place before the -
jar parameter if you use the latter.  The other approach is 
to minimize jEdit when you wish it to remain open but 
inactive for extended periods.  

Let us know how you make out.

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