Obscure Wind River Workbench Problem

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So, I just finished (finally) installing everything off of the two disks, and opened up workbench. Following the instructions of team members who had successfully sent programs, i did target > New Connection > Wind River VxWorks...

But on this screen, there is no field for me to enter the ip address where there was for others, using vista or xp. i'm running vista. Here's a picture of what the window looks like:

http://www.icrobotics.com/error.jpg

In other menus, similar problems occured, with various elements of the interface missing or not functioning.

Any ideas? If all else fails, i guess i'll have to re-install, but if any of you knows a fix it would be greatly appreciated!

[Mark McLeod]

Off-hand I'd recommend reinstalling just Wind River.
Haven't seen that one before though.

[virtuald]

Are you running 64-bit Vista? I've heard rumors that there are issues with 64-bit Vista, though I'm not quite sure what they are.

[Randy Picolet]

Wow.

I have _exactly_ the same symptoms. I removed/re-installed Wind River, but that didn't change anything. Then I completely removed/re-installed both LabView and WindRiver from the CDs again. Still no luck. I gave the same CDs to one of my students with the identical (Vista 64-bit) OS on a brand-new HP laptop (mine is a month old HP laptop...), and his installed/operated correctly the first time.

I also have no idea what is wrong. With the the loss of dialog/menu elements, it seems like perhaps a corrupt/missing class file or DLL? Maybe we missed an update or one failed or something...

Another thing that might be different is our Java/JVM configurations. Eclipse (the IDE underlying the Wind River Workbench) is implemented in Java, so there may be something going on there.

I'll keep poking around on my system. Please post if you make any progress, or if anyone knows what's going on here...

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Well, i don't wish this on anyone, but thanks for letting me know i'm not the only one. I went through the same process of you--reinstalling just windriver, then re-installing everything and it still didn't work.

I am indeed running Vista 64bit, so maybe there's something there, but i'm pretty sure one of my fellow programmers is also and his works fine. I could be mistaken. I have about a 3 month old Sony Vaio. I posted the problem on the FIRST forums but haven't yet received an answer.

I updated Java before the last re-install, too, and same problem. If I hear anything, I'll let you know. Keep me posted if you can get it to work!