GWT Dev Mode For IE8

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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?

It might be helpful if you can provide the entire stack trace in your post. — fehays, Dec 06 '13 at 23:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '13 at 23:07

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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/

answered Dec 06 '13 at 23:07

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I used to run devMode on IE8/Win7 successfully. Very slow, but working. – alexp Dec 07 '13 at 01:37
Alexp, when did you have dev mode working with IE8/Win7? Was it in the last year? – HappyCoder86 Dec 07 '13 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 – alexp Dec 08 '13 at 17:57
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This is only working for select entry points into my app. Most entry points are still causing this crash. – moraleboost Dec 09 '13 at 15:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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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...

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Dec 06 '13 at 23:40

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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. – moraleboost Dec 09 '13 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)... http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/ – Stefan Haustein Dec 09 '13 at 17:39
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IE doesn't support source maps :( – moraleboost Dec 09 '13 at 19:05

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