Could not open editor: 256 error

Classic Servoy
1

Running Servoy Developer 6.0.3, when I attempt to open a form I get the following error message:
“Could not open the editor: 256” per the two screenshots below (shown in reverse order).

How can I resolve this?

Dean

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2

what kind of bean do you have on that form?
Can you open companies.frm file (through the navigator) in a normal text editor (so not the form editor)
there we should be able to see what you have on the form.

3

No beans, we are all webclient. It seems like it either happens with all forms or does not happen at all. Nothing is listed under the “Problems” tab. Very strange. Sometimes I will close out of developer and later come back and the problem mysteriously goes away. Then just when I think it has healed itself, it comes back again, not allowing me to open any forms. Below is the contents of companies.frm:

dataSource:“db:/contacts/prefs”,
extendsID:“-1”,
items:[
{
dataProviderID:“prefsid”,
editable:false,
format:“0”,
horizontalAlignment:0,
location:“60,46”,
name:“prefsid”,
size:“54,20”,
text:“prefsid”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“02926706-2066-4792-8DFF-7ACF55263AFD”
},
{
dataProviderID:“company_name”,
editable:true,
location:“60,92”,
name:“company_name”,
size:“245,20”,
text:“company_name”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“04C5E784-FF69-4B36-B692-A30C60F9E872”
},
{
height:333,
partType:8,
typeid:19,
uuid:“2DDB02A6-9204-4F90-B81D-56D28D4BCE67”
},
{
dataProviderID:“columnNames”,
displayType:2,
groupID:null,
location:“224,12”,
name:“columnNames”,
onActionMethodID:“-1”,
onDataChangeMethodID:“32E00AA9-0C4D-4B1D-A704-686894EBE282”,
size:“120,20”,
tabSeq:0,
typeid:4,
uuid:“332CE6A7-AC19-4187-A6F7-B9DF8023E2A4”,
valuelistID:“A9FFFD53-C272-4512-8156-241FFB9150CD”
},
{
dataProviderID:“company_email”,
editable:true,
location:“60,172”,
name:“company_email”,
size:“200,20”,
text:“company_email”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“3B3F7E6C-21F5-4EE2-8966-AB6582463D4E”
},
{
dataProviderID:“company_city”,
editable:true,
location:“60,230”,
name:“company_city”,
size:“140,20”,
text:“company_city”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“4142E429-8DE2-4FC9-B60B-1053A8A74A89”
},
{
dataProviderID:“globals.vFormNames”,
displayType:2,
groupID:null,
location:“15,12”,
name:“formName”,
onActionMethodID:“-1”,
onDataChangeMethodID:“D97AE5F8-CA6C-43A9-81D1-93356F11A7CF”,
size:“130,20”,
tabSeq:0,
typeid:4,
uuid:“44720AA3-3090-47A1-A4F1-D5C403ECF6A5”,
valuelistID:“8FE137A6-1EFE-47F6-A227-65E21D9F7D38”
},
{
groupID:null,
location:“474,11”,
onActionMethodID:“C92A61DB-A3AC-40C4-B562-AE6BF30DD11C”,
onDoubleClickMethodID:“-1”,
onRightClickMethodID:“-1”,
size:“46,20”,
tabSeq:0,
text:“Go”,
typeid:7,
uuid:“56FC9C51-1468-48F0-B142-CC5E1699FAFF”
},
{
dataProviderID:“lite_pro”,
displayType:4,
editable:true,
format:“0”,
groupID:null,
horizontalAlignment:0,
location:“60,69”,
name:“pro”,
size:“28,20”,
tabSeq:0,
text:“pro”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“5A285050-C27F-4A7E-B6B6-B2747D1ECAD5”
},
{
groupID:null,
location:“808,11”,
onActionMethodID:“6B3BB389-F991-436E-8D5D-8663687C32CD”,
onDoubleClickMethodID:“-1”,
onRightClickMethodID:“-1”,
size:“80,20”,
tabSeq:0,
text:“Exit”,
typeid:7,
uuid:“641B78F3-0304-40D4-B181-690E1EB0ED2A”
},
{
location:“624,11”,
onActionMethodID:“BFC053C5-3B98-433F-9F73-3C1B43950DA0”,
onDoubleClickMethodID:“-1”,
onRightClickMethodID:“-1”,
size:“80,20”,
text:“Save”,
typeid:7,
uuid:“78EB4F78-77FE-41BC-B5AF-ED7E64A87DB8”
},
{
height:290,
partType:5,
typeid:19,
uuid:“86A5CC64-A453-45AE-A4DA-A9A5F1D2111D”
},
{
dataProviderID:“date_s”,
displayType:5,
editable:true,
format:“MM/dd/yyyy”,
horizontalAlignment:0,
location:“60,142”,
name:“date_s”,
size:“94,20”,
text:“date_s”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“9F585B66-6991-4C28-969E-EA1166A0EEE5”
},
{
dataProviderID:“searchCriteria”,
groupID:null,
location:“350,12”,
name:“searchCriteria”,
onActionMethodID:“C92A61DB-A3AC-40C4-B562-AE6BF30DD11C”,
size:“117,20”,
tabSeq:0,
text:“searchCriteria”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“B072B5AE-9879-4DB6-B46E-9C1D3A631EEC”,
valuelistID:“0”
},
{
dataProviderID:“company_state”,
editable:true,
location:“60,260”,
name:“company_state”,
size:“140,20”,
text:“company_state”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“BEB2B01A-A472-4426-A782-05D9B576308D”
},
{
groupID:null,
location:“532,11”,
onActionMethodID:“BE0FB983-AEE3-48B0-AEBF-206CC92339B8”,
onDoubleClickMethodID:“-1”,
onRightClickMethodID:“-1”,
size:“80,20”,
tabSeq:0,
text:“Show All”,
typeid:7,
uuid:“CC4B106B-8486-4A90-B03D-0F98AA2B4B72”
},
{
dataProviderID:“date_e”,
displayType:5,
editable:true,
format:“MM/dd/yyyy”,
horizontalAlignment:0,
location:“60,117”,
name:“date_e”,
size:“94,20”,
text:“date_e”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“D025CC9C-A973-44C4-99FF-DA6A57E090EB”
},
{
height:42,
partType:1,
typeid:19,
uuid:“F0D2AB92-A0EE-48D7-9DAD-91817EDEFFB7”
},
{
dataProviderID:“globals.vMessage”,
foreground:“#ff0000”,
groupID:null,
horizontalAlignment:2,
location:“904,11”,
name:“label_message”,
printable:false,
size:“288,20”,
tabSeq:0,
text:“%%globals.vMessage%%”,
transparent:true,
typeid:7,
uuid:“F4FDEBCF-967D-48AE-AAD3-0B3A54656719”
},
{
dataProviderID:“company_phone”,
editable:true,
location:“60,202”,
name:“company_phone”,
size:“100,20”,
text:“company_phone”,
typeid:4,
uuid:“F5E41FFC-F2A1-4C89-A0E4-7A0BAF6713DD”
},
{
groupID:null,
horizontalAlignment:4,
location:“152,13”,
size:“65,20”,
tabSeq:0,
text:“Search by”,
transparent:true,
typeid:7,
uuid:“F99FE61E-FD97-415F-854B-27AD4E3C0FF9”
}
],
name:“companies”,
onShowMethodID:“A4B65E14-B932-4F37-9BD8-822D1A7AD802”,
showInMenu:true,
size:“1200,333”,
typeid:3,
uuid:“4F28E284-E202-468A-81E0-48A134A56A42”,
view:3

4

Dean,

The error occurs when creating the images for the palette.

Do you have custom beans in there?

You can try to disable stuff shown on the palette, maybe that way you can find out which item causes this exception.
Rightcklick on palette → Customize and then for each drawer tick the hide checkbox.
You can do this also for separate items.

If you cannot acces the palette because of this exception, you can set the property designer.paletteCustomization in file /path/to/servoy_workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/com.servoy.eclipse.ui.prefs to hide them all:

designer.paletteCustomization={"entryProperties"\:{"beans\:servoy.hidden"\:true,"containers.hidden"\:true,"elements.hidden"\:true,"shapes.hidden"\:true,"templates.hidden"\:true}}

Rob

5

Your suggesion worked. Thank you very much.

Dean

6

I have made the palette more robust against beans with bogus images.

Rob