STS / GGTS 3.1 toolbar problem

[rainerfrey]

After upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1, the toolbars are messed up. For every deselected or unavailable command group, there is an empty toolbar section with separator. When switching from Java/JEE/Grails/Spring perspective to Debug, there are no debug toolbar icons (Step into ...) visible. After randomly dragging around the empty toolbar sections, they appear in a previously empty section. After switching back (to a perspective without debug commands) the section is empty again. but retains the size that it had with the buttons visible.

Here's a screenshot:
ggts_toolbar.jpg

Same error happened in GGTS and STS.
This problem was already mentioned in
http://forum.springsource.org/showth...rsion&p=427127 but I'm afraid it goes unnoticed there as the poster asked a different question.

[Marten Deinum]

Eclipse 4.2.x is basically a PITA... It sucks in performance and user experience so you should really be directing these questions to the eclipse guys (I use the 3.8 version without any problems).

Also posting the same question day-after-day isn't considered polite so please don't do that anymore...

[ldossantos]

Oddly this didn't come up at all in our testing of STS 3.1.0, but this week I'm seeing the same behaviour in my own dev Eclipse which doesn't include STS. I'd like to suggest this is a bug in Eclipse, but I updated that *last* week and didn't see this behaviour either, so there must be another component involved to triggering this issue.

[rainerfrey]

It seems to be a problem with the update in any case. It doesn't occur in a new installation of STS 3.1.0

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

As an alternative, you could also download and install a distribution of STS 3.1.0 that is based on Eclipse 3.8. It includes exactly the same features as the 4.2 version, but it using the old (and at the moment more performant) UI implementation from Eclipse. Just in case you would like to give it a try.

HTH,
Martin

[petrf]

Hi.
I have the same problem after upgrade Spring Tool Suite to version 3.2.0.RELEASE, 64 bit, build Id: 201303060821. Windows 7, 64 bit.
sts-3.2-toolbar.jpg

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

As mentioned in this thread, this seems to be a problem with the Eclipse 4.2 UI, as I would guess. I could think of three ways to tackle this:

- try to reset the perspective and/or start with a clean workspace, to see if that solves the problem somehow.
- you could try to use a fresh installation of STS 3.2.0.RELEASE and re-open your existing workspace.
- you could try a fresh installation of STS 3.2.0.RELEASE for Eclipse 3.8, that should definitely solve the issue as a last resort.

HTH,
Martin

[petrf]

I'm tried:
1. ran sts.exe with parameter "-clean" - nothing changed
2. same as 1. and create new workspace - nothing changed
3. same as 2. and reset perspective - nothing changed
4. downloaded spring-tool-suite-3.2.0.RELEASE-e4.2.2-win32-x86_64.zip and make clean install - same problem

My history of STS 3.x:
- clean install STS 3.0.0 - work fine
- upgrade to STS 3.1.0 (managed by STS) - work fine
- upgrade to STS 3.2.0 (managed by STS) - my first problem with toolbars, menus etc.

I'm try version STS 3.2 with Eclipse 3.8 - work OK.

Thanx
Petr

UPDATE: my home computer with Ubuntu 12.04 and STS 3.2.0/Eclipse 4.2 work fine without any problem.

[Martin Lippert]

Hey Petr,

thanks for the update and the additional details. I am sorry that had such an unpleasant experience upgrading to 3.2.0. But I am glad to hear that STS 3.2.0 on Eclipse 3.8 is working fine for you.

We will take an additional look at the Windows version that you mentioned that had the same problem to see if we can find out more about this.

Cheers,
-Martin

[petrf]

For me it's not a problem. I am convinced that the next version will work fine.

Thank you for your work.

Peter