20081008 Wednesday October 08, 2008

Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) Problem

Got the following error while opening a visual class in Eclipse.


IWAV0168E Improper nesting of mark statements in Expression. Tried to pop or endMark to before current mark. Tried to go past Mark# 0.

Here is what I did to fix it (at least temporarily). Worked for me, no guarantees for anyone else.

  • Close Eclipse.
  • Go to my workspace (usually in "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\workspace").
  • Navigate to the following location: ".metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.ve.java.core"
  • Delete the ".cache" folder.
  • Restart Eclipse and see if it works.

Hope this works for others.

Posted by rickg ( Oct 08 2008, 05:41:26 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [13]
20081001 Wednesday October 01, 2008

Remote desktop fails silently

I had remote desktop working on a WinXP Pro machine for ages, but hadn't accessed it for a couple months. When I tried to do so today, it failed. No error was displayed, I simply clicked on the Remote Desktop Client connect button, it greyed out for a second, then it re-enabled itself. I could click on it all I wanted, and it would never connect or give any indication why.

After much searching, I finally came across this blog, which pointed me towards graphic drivers as the issue. Sure enough, I had upgraded my Nvidia drivers in July, and that must have caused the problem.

Fortunately, I was able to fix this by upgrading to the latest Nvidia drivers (178.13, release Sept 25, 2008).

Posted by rickg ( Oct 01 2008, 03:02:07 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]