HATS rich client considerations and limitations

Following is a list of considerations and limitations when using HATS rich client applications:
  • The jclDesktop JRE is installed by the Lotus® Expeditor Toolkit version 6.2.0 and earlier. This JRE does not contain Swing and AWT libraries on which HATS rich client support depends. When HATS detects this JRE for the workspace, it displays a warning dialog that the current JRE is incompatible with HATS and provides an option to change the JRE to the default Eclipse JRE. If you choose not to change the JRE, then you must change it manually. Use the Show incompatible JRE warning preference setting to display or suppress the warning dialog. See Using HATS preferences for more information.
  • Limitations exist relating to the use of the text replacement function to replace text with images in combination with the use of certain SWT widgets in rich client applications. For more information see Text Replacement. The widgets and limitations are listed below:
    • Button - if any part of the caption text is replaced with an image, all other caption text is discarded.
    • Button table - same as button.
    • Check box - same as button.
    • Combo - no image replacement occurs within the drop-down itself. Image replacement does occur for the caption text. Other text, not replaced with an image, is preserved and displayed in the caption.
    • Drop-down (data entry) and Drop-down (selection) - same as combo.
    • Graph - no image replacement occurs.
    • Link - no image replacement occurs.
    • List - same as combo.
    • Popup - same as combo
    • Radio button (data entry) and Radio button (selection) - same as button.
    • Subfile (check box) - image replacement occurs within the table. If any part of the caption text on a button above or below the table is replaced with an image, all other caption text is discarded.
    • Subfile (drop-down) - image replacement occurs within the table only. No image replacement occurs within the drop-down.
    • Text input - same as combo.
    • Toolbar - since images are determined by the defined image mappings, text replacement with images does not occur when the toolbar widget is used.
  • Java Visual Editor support for rich client applications is removed from HATS V9.7. You cannot use Java Visual Editor to edit HATS rich client transformations and templates.