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Mostly (but not always) when I try to print a topic from the online help (JavaHelp), the runide.exe starts consuming cpu and memory and I never get the print out. I have to kill the runide.exe app instead. About 5 minutes ago, I tried the print and the task manager shows that runide.exe is using 99% cpu, no other processes are using cpu. When I first look, the Memour usage was 70,000. Now it is up to 138,54. I am not using the PC and haven't since I started monitoring this print request. I restarted and printed from the source editor ok, printed one help topic ok, and then tried another topic and the above happened. Build o30401. Java 1.4.1_01
Printing from help on linux works correctly. It is probably JDK/Windows specific.
How big was the topic you were trying to print? AFAIK, printing in JDK 1.2 and up creates a gargantuan bitmap and sends it to the printer. So printing something small might not be a problem, but printing something enormous can get pretty huge. That is a Java issue, not so much a NetBeans issue - I don't know if there have been improvements in more recent JDKs (I last tried printing from the IDE in 1999 on an early 1.3 - the experience was pretty aversion-producing). Also could be an issue in JavaHelp itself (also a JDK bug), since the printing support is implemented there. Not sure there's much we can do about it, but will try to investigate it at some point.
The topics are very small. I have not seen any pattern that determines when I will be successful. An example of a topic that won't print is in the JSP/Servlet help set titled Upgrading to JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3 Specifications. In my experiments to try and narrow down the cause, I have seen a situation where I print a topic successfully once, try again and it won't print. Also, I did not have this problem last week, so it may have been introduced by a change. Or it may be a problem specific to this section of the help set.
Same problem here. $ java -version java version "1.4.2" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-b28) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-b28, mixed mode) $ uname -a Linux hugo 2.4.21 #1 Don Jul 24 22:28:38 CEST 2003 i686 unknown
Closing this as fixed - there was a bug in 1.1.3 that could cause a lot of looping if a page break occured in just the right spot (basically JavaHelp endlessly trying to format the same page). The author of JavaHelp has informed me this is fixed in JavaHelp 2.0, which the trunk builds use. If you experience the problem with a current trunk build, please reopen.
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