[kepler-dev] File Menu Problem

[Matt Jones]

It appears to be a JDK bug that only manifests itself on certain versions of
Java on Windows and only then when the user's Documents folder has been
renamed or deleted (which seems to break certain registry keys that hardcode
the location of the Documents folder).    The simplest fix seems to be to
recreate the missing 'Documents' folder for the user.  A more complex
workaround is proposed in the next to last comment on this bug report:
  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6544857
Basically, it drops back to an java 1.3 FileChooser dialog if a problem is
encountered trying to load the normal file chooser.

Anne -- can you confirm whether adding back in the original Documents folder
fixes the problem for you (or if its even missing or renamed in your case)?
 If so, then pursuing a fix like the one above may be straightforward
enough.

Matt

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Christopher Brooks <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Hi Anne,
> I have not seen this one before.
> Try searching the net for "could not get shell folder ID list".
> It looks like a somewhat mysterious bug.
> There are some suggestions about trying different things with the registry.
> There is also a suggestion about using some fallback code from Jython.
>
> Can you post a complete stack trace?
>
> Thanks,
>
> _Christopher
>
>
> On 10/4/10 2:14 PM, Ngu, Anne Hee Hiong wrote:
>
>> I checked out a new copy of Kepler off the trunk today, build it
>> successfully. After the gui started,   I clicked on File-->   open file  it
>> threw  the following exceptions:
>>     File Menu Exception
>>     java.io.IOException: could not get shell folder ID list
>>
>>  I am running Kepler in  Window XP and compiled using JDK 1.5.
>>
>> I never come across this problem in the earlier version of Kepler. Just
>> wondering whether others have come across the same problem recently and if
>> so, how does it get resolved?
>>
>> Anne
>>
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