Re: WDSC with vista -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: WDSC with vista
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:23:21 -0400
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The issue is that Eclipse use SWT instead of Swing to provide the...

Thanks. That gave me some info to Google with.

and here it hits the Windows64 folks since apparently the Windows32
emulation in Windows64 is different enough to give Eclipse problems.

I wonder what the real problem is. If 32 bit WOW has a different API then true 32-bit windows I'd expect it's reportable as a bug. However, other than lots of references to "compatibility problems" I didn't find anyone saying what the root problem was.

I expect that actually the problem is that the installer loads up a 64-bit JVM and then tries to use the 32-bit binaries, I can definitely see that failing. Any way to install it and then swap out the JVM to be a 32bit JVM?

-Walden

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