GWT Dev Mode For IE8

Asked 6/12, 2013 at 23:6 Answered 6/12, 2013 at 23:40

I see that the GWT Development Mode plugin is available for Internet Explorer 8, but the browser crashes when I start it. The stack trace says there's an error in oophm.dll. I'm running it on a VirtualBox instance with Windows 7. Are there any special steps for setting up dev mode in IE8?

Wimmer answered 6/12, 2013 at 23:6 Comment(1)

It might be helpful if you can provide the entire stack trace in your post. – Tribunal 6/12, 2013 at 23:27

Dev mode doesn’t seem to play well with Windows 7. Try downloading a windows XP vm from: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

You’ll also need to manually install the dev mode for IE 8 plug in from the following location because the built-in link for IE 8 is broken: http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tags/2.5.0/plugins/ie/prebuilt/

Bulgar answered 6/12, 2013 at 23:7 Comment(4)

I used to run devMode on IE8/Win7 successfully. Very slow, but working. – Ferrer 7/12, 2013 at 1:37

Alexp, when did you have dev mode working with IE8/Win7? Was it in the last year? – Bulgar 7/12, 2013 at 15:28

I had HP Envy 15 notebook with Win 7 installed. IE8 was originally installed there too and never updated for the purpose of testing the application on that browser. Last time I used that config was about two months ago. I was using dev mode on GWT since 1.7.x till 2.5 – Ferrer 8/12, 2013 at 17:57

This is only working for select entry points into my app. Most entry points are still causing this crash. – Wimmer 9/12, 2013 at 15:28

Consider trying superdevmode?

http://www.gwtproject.org/articles/superdevmode.html
Super Dev mode in GWT (stackoverflow)

Disclaimer: I don't know if it works on IE 8 -- but I think it was designed to work on any modern broser. One main reason for creating it was to get rid of the need of maintaining various browser plugins...

Amontillado answered 6/12, 2013 at 23:40 Comment(3)

Thanks for the quick response. I really need to be able to pause the debugger inside of the Java code. I was under the impression that you can't do that with Super Dev Mode. – Wimmer 9/12, 2013 at 14:47

I thought this would work in the browser debugger via source maps, but I am not sure whether IE supports source maps (at all or starting with a specific version)... html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps – Amontillado 9/12, 2013 at 17:39

IE doesn't support source maps :( – Wimmer 9/12, 2013 at 19:5

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