I'll keep this one short and snappy.
If you want to change from the default 'landscape' mode, click and hold the mouse from the bottom right hand edge of the simulator (just anywhere in the black section will do) and drag towards the centre of the screen, and release.
Showing posts with label blackberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blackberry. Show all posts
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Monday, 26 September 2011
BlackBerry Development - JVM Error 104
During BlackBerry development, there are literally hundreds of hurdles that will get in your way.
One of which I noticed recently was the seemingly random error, which causes the "White Screen of Death" you can see below. This is caused by the dreaded JVM Error 104, which is a sort of catch-all something-went-wrong-and-you-didn't-handle-it kind of problem.
One of which I noticed recently was the seemingly random error, which causes the "White Screen of Death" you can see below. This is caused by the dreaded JVM Error 104, which is a sort of catch-all something-went-wrong-and-you-didn't-handle-it kind of problem.
Thursday, 15 September 2011
BlackBerry - Eclipse Error - Invalid Regex in BlackBerry_App_Descriptor.xml
If you ever see this error from Eclipse whilst doing BlackBerry development,
InvalidRegex: Pattern value '([a-zA-Z_]{1,63}[\s-a-zA-Z_0-9.]{0,63}[;]?)*' is not a valid regular expression
you should of course follow the hint in the error and check that none of your values in your BlackBerry_App_Descriptor.xml will fail the regex.
However, there is a very strange case whereby you will see this error regardless of your values. In fact, creating a new project straight from Eclipse will still show the error.
Turns out this could be caused by having Java JRE 7 installed on your machine. The BlackBerry plugin doesn't support this yet, Eclipse might be trying to use that.
The fix? You simply have to edit the eclipse.ini that will live in the same directory as your eclipse.exe that you use to start the IDE. Closing Eclipse and making a backup of eclipse.ini before you do this would be a good idea.
Find the line "openFile" and immediately after, add the following:
-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin/javaw.exe [or wherever your jre6 directory might be]
Cross your fingers and restart Eclipse.
Rebuild your projects.
Wow I hate programming for BlackBerry. Is it not dead yet? Seriously any platform that needs a site like this (http://isthesigningserverdown.com/) needs to get itself sorted.
InvalidRegex: Pattern value '([a-zA-Z_]{1,63}[\s-a-zA-Z_0-9.]{0,63}[;]?)*' is not a valid regular expression
you should of course follow the hint in the error and check that none of your values in your BlackBerry_App_Descriptor.xml will fail the regex.
However, there is a very strange case whereby you will see this error regardless of your values. In fact, creating a new project straight from Eclipse will still show the error.
Turns out this could be caused by having Java JRE 7 installed on your machine. The BlackBerry plugin doesn't support this yet, Eclipse might be trying to use that.
The fix? You simply have to edit the eclipse.ini that will live in the same directory as your eclipse.exe that you use to start the IDE. Closing Eclipse and making a backup of eclipse.ini before you do this would be a good idea.
Find the line "openFile" and immediately after, add the following:
-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin/javaw.exe [or wherever your jre6 directory might be]
Cross your fingers and restart Eclipse.
Rebuild your projects.
Wow I hate programming for BlackBerry. Is it not dead yet? Seriously any platform that needs a site like this (http://isthesigningserverdown.com/) needs to get itself sorted.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)