Chapter 5. Troubleshooting

Canonical File Paths

The JRE, up to version 1.4 (at least), has a bug in JFileChooser when using the Metal Look & Feel. It will resolve canonical paths when changing directories. While ProjectViewer tries to work around this issue, it may lead to some strange behaviors, especially when importing files.

Large projects

Large projects can take some time to load, especially over a network connection if the "delete non-existant files" configuration option is enabled. This is due to asking whether the file exists for each file in the project, which can be slow in some systems.

Multiple Viewer in same jEdit View

jEdit allows multiple instances of the same dockable for the same view. Project Viewer does not support this feature and will issue an error message if you try to open two Project Viewer windows in the same view.