Vaadin Designer Beta!

General
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Good news, guys!

As you probably saw in the blog,
Vaadin Designer has reached Beta stage
!
(The version is 0.8.1, if you want to verify.)

That means that
now is a really good time to try it out!
Unless we get your feedback, we will not be able to fix your issues before the final :wink:

At Vaadin we’re all programmers at heart, and quite fond of our code. Even so, Vaadin Designer has already been shown to speed up development time when implementing a layout - even when comparing first-time Designer use with expert Java coding performance. And the programmers are quite happy - less configuring components and back-and-forth between browser and code, more business logic and cleaner code.

Here are some resources you should check out:

So hop over to your Eclipse and
Check for Updates
 or
Install New Software
 (http://vaadin.com/eclipse) and give the Beta a spin during the weekend!

Then hit the “Give feedback” button in the Designer toolbar, or reply to this post, once you have some feedback!

Best Regards,
Marc

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good job~
I hope use it in Netbeans.
Now, I design it in eclipse and copy it to Netbeans…-_-!

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I have a problem with the Vaadin Designer and ProTools licence (though I don’t know if it’s a licence problem or not).
I created a new simple Maven project, added project facets (Dynamic Web, Java, JavaScript) and when I try to do New → Vaadin Design I takes a while, then I get the Vaadin Design wizard.
But the “Finish” button never becomes active, no matter what I do or what ClassName I enter. Also interesting: If I empty the ClassName field, I get a “Type name is empty” warning, but it doesn’t go away when I enter something again.

I’m working from a company network behind a proxy, though all Web-related eclipse-functions (Updates, Install, Marketplace, Maven) work perfectly.

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Addition: I was able to create a HTML-file myself and open it with VaadinDesigner view and everything worked - though I still don’t get an enabled Finish-Button when trying to add a new design with the wizard.

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Running the Designer with trial license on Eclipse Luna.

The Designer Editor fails to load system browser for me to be able to preview my design. I got an Error Alert and more alerts keep popping up every few seconds with the same message. Web related function form eclipse like update, installs, work fine. I disabled my firewall but the error persists. I tried using the provide feedback button from the Designer toolbar but I just get an empty browser window.
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I have the same exact problem of error alerts popping up until I close the file. Please suggest a solution.

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This looks very similar to http://dev.vaadin.com/ticket/18651 although you mentioned that you have Web nature for your project.
But still it can be similar or exactly the same.

Anyway, button is disabled most likely because of exception.
Can you check .log file in your workpsace (under .metadata folder) and see if there are any exception.
If there is an excpetion then please post it here.
Also please try the latest Beta2 version. It can fix your issue (may be it’s already fixed) or it gives most recent stacktrace of the exception.

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This issue is exactly the same as described here: https://vaadin.com/forum/#!/thread/10571447
We will try to figure out what’s going on in this thread.

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This issue is exactly the same as described here: https://vaadin.com/forum/#!/thread/10571447
We will try to figure out what’s going on in this thread.

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Could you please let me know which version of designer do you use , operating system, browser and its version ?

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Could you please let me know which version of designer do you use , operating system, browser and its version ?

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Also please try latest designer version beta2.

The logic which shows the error that you get has been changed and it can be fixed in Beta2.

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Dont know if this is the right place.

But today i downloaded designer and trial license. Properties panes show up but design area remains empty and error dialog box with


file://http://%5Bfd2a:7f6d:86ed:2c00:31b5:7a4d:2f0c:5eb8%5D:52329/c8d0?editor#edit
Page load failed with error: Die angeforderte URL wurde auf diesem Server nicht gefunden. (
german language 404 not found error)

The url is strange. can anyone give advice? I use current MacOs

Thanks in advance,

Timo

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Hi Timo,

Looks like the Designer has picked up a IPv6 url for your design. They tend to look strange :slight_smile:

If you open Safari and paste http://[fd2a:7f6d:86ed:2c00:31b5:7a4d:2f0c:5eb8]
:52329/c8d0 can you see the design you have open in eclipse?

You could try going to Project → Properties → Vaadin → Vaadin Designer and uncheck the “Automatic” checkbox and replace the ip with either 0.0.0.0 (ipv4) or ::1 (ipv6). Does it help?

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Hey John,
that helped to set it to 0.0.0.0.

At IPV6 Address, there ist a file://http:// instead of just a http. Possibly there is a platform dependend bug. Today I also tried on windows which worked out of the box.

Thanks :slight_smile: