[antlr-interest] ANTLRworks stability?

[Jonathan Thomas]

Yeah, it can definitely get a case of the wobegones.
Have not had as bad as you describe.  I'm using java 1.5 ... wonder if 
anyone else is using 1.6? Sorry, v6 :-) ?

Just a few hours ago I had it refuse to redraw the screen ... though it 
hadn't frozen (wave the mouse around and watch it redraw the parts under 
the pointer).

Steve Bennett said the following on 22/11/2007 4:33 PM:
> Just wondering if I'm the only one for whom ANTLRworks is very
> unstable. I'm running v1.1.4 on Windows XP, on two different machines,
> and on both it freezes up very often on my main grammar project (300
> lines or so). In fact, at the moment, I can basically load it, make a
> tweak, debug it *once*, then the next time I debug, it will freeze.
> Shut down the java window, reload, start again.
>
> Is there anything I can do to improve its stability? Would running on
> VMware help, and if so, which is the best platform?
>
> It generally seems to be  freezing in the "generating code" phase,
> about halfway through - the window gradually becomes more and more
> unresponsive before it finally stops responding altogether.
>
> If stability is a general problem, how do most people develop with
> ANTLR? Do you just forego ANTLRWorks altogether except for small
> tests?
>
> ANTLRWorks reports:
> ANTLR: 3.0.1
> StringTemplate: 3.1b1
> XLibrary: 2.0
> Java: 1.6.0_03 (I also have J2SE runtime environment 5.0 update 9 installed)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Steve
>
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