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Zend Studio 7 GUI Problems in Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”

didier — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:55:16 +0000

On Ubuntu Karmic, there are some GUI bugs in Zend Studio. Some buttons are not working, no action follows a click.
Here is the official Zend explanation and workAround : http://kb.zend.com/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=435
Here is an easier step by step :

Open terminal
Enter “gedit .ZendStudioFixed.sh”
Cut and paste the script you’ll find below (if necessary, adapt the path to ZendStudio).
Save and close
“chmod u+x .ZendStudioFixed.sh”
Right click on you ZendStudio launcher in control panel (if you created one) or in System > Preferences > Main Menu > Programming. In “Properties” replace “/usr/local/Zend/ZendStudio-7.0.2/ZendStudio” by “./.ZendStudioFixed.sh”

The script (from kb.zend.com) :

[BEGINNING]

#!/bin/bash
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/usr/local/Zend/ZendStudio-7.0.2/ZendStudio '$@'

[END]

Eclipse / ZendStudio plugins and customizations

didier — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:49:33 +0000

First of all, updates and install must be run as the same user used when you install (if you install zend studio with “sudo”, which I recommend, launch zend studio with sudo : “sudo /usr/local/Zend/ZendStudio-7.0.1/ZendStudio”, and then run “Help > Install New Software etc.”
Aptana (useful as a standalone too) as a plugin. Update site : http://update15.aptana.org/studio/25914/
1. From the Help menu, select Install New Software… to open an Install pop-up window.
2. In the Work with: text box of the Install window, type the URL http://update15.aptana.org/studio/25914/ for the update site, and hit the Enter key.
3. In the populated table below, check the box next to the name of the plug-in, and click the Next button.
4. Click the Next button to go to the license page.
5. Choose the option to accept the terms of the license agreement, and click the Finish button

GotoFile (Eclipse update site : http://www.muermann.org/gotofile/update)

Mylyn
Syntax-highlighting for ini files : colorEditor plugin : from http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=1873&start=0 : “Like most other programs, Eclipse needs a plugin to handle specific file types. You may want to try this one – ColorEditor . Just download the .jar file (ver. 1.2.6) and put it into /dropins. After you restart Zend Studio, you should be able to open any file in the new editor by right-clicking it and choosing Open With | Syntax Coloring Editor.” The download page is here : http://gstaff.org/colorEditor/download.html. Works very well.
Wysiwyg Editor : http://kb.zend.com/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=419 (in case it is removed one day, I reproduce the steps here. Without screenshots) :
1. First : launch zend studio as the same user whom installed (unless this you’ll have a message claiming for the old update manager)
2. In Zend Studio go to Help | Install New Software. This will open the Install dialog.
3. In the Work with drop-down select Galileo – http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo. This will load the list of available plug-ins in the middle part of the dialog.
4. To narrow down the available options, type “editor” in the filter field.
5. Under the Web, XML, and Java EE Development category select the Web Page Editor plug-in and click Next.
6. The installation mechanism will verify the availability and compatibility of the plug-in and display the result on the Install Details page of the Install dialog. Click Next.
7. On the Review Licenses page you need to agree to all licenses to continue the installation. If you agree to the licenses, select I accept the terms of the license agreements and click Finish.
8. The installation progress dialog will appear. Upon the completion of the installation you will be prompted to restart Zend Studio. Click Yes (this will trigger restart).
9. After the restart of Zend Studio the Web Page Editor will be installed and added to the list of available editors for the HTML files. You can invoke the new editor by right-clicking on an HTML file and choosing Open With | Web Page Editor.

Running Zend Studio on 64 bit Ubuntu

didier — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:25:06 +0000

This is obsolete (Zend Studio 7 has a 64 bit version now )
Zend Studio (6.1.2) is still 32 bits only (even 7.0 beta). I could install without problems, but some weird behaviors occured (impossible to connect to the web, impossible to synchronize repositories…). Here is my workaround :

1) Install ia32-sun-java6-bin (with synaptic)

2) modify jre to load (zend support) in zend .ini file

Default zend ini file is : /usr/local/Zend/ZendStudioForEclipse-6.1.2/ZendStudio.ini. Add the following lines to the start of the file:
; Run Zend Studio with system's JRE -vm /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so ; ----------------------------------------

Of course, adapt you path to libjvm.so (in synaptics, properties of ia32-sun-java6-bin->files).

64 bits version of Zend Studio is planned, but with no ETA

This links were helpful for me :

http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=910
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=553508
http://www.dbaranski.net/node/17

NB. Install

In order to install you must have libc6-i386 and ia32-libs. If not make this :
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 ia32-libs
In my install of jaunty (9.04), il was already installed.
Thanks to Dominic for this tip.