Calling All Mac/Eclipse Enthusiasts
Attention all Mac owners! We need your help to test the now-complete Cocoa port of SWT.
The SWT team has been working hard on the SWT Cocoa port and they’ve marked the plan item as completed. Current testing indicates that it’s looking very good, but we need more help. We need to get as many eyes (and—more specifically—fingers) on it as possible. We are fast running out of time to get fixes in. Any testing that we can get from the community would really be appreciated.
Some of the cool things about the cocoa port include:
- Runs on 32 and 64 bit so that you can use any Apple VM that you’d like.
- Shell modified state hint tells users they have unsaved changes
- Support for Apple’s sheet notification windows
- Cool native drag and drop support
Download it from the Eclipse Project Downloads page. Report bugs against Platform/SWT in Eclipse Bugzilla.
Thanks to Kevin Barnes for giving me most of the words for this post!
From http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/wayne
Wayne Beaton is employed by The Eclipse Foundation where he works as an evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies. He is also the editor-in-chief of Eclipse Corner, PMC Lead for the Technology Project, Project Lead for the Examples Project, and an advisor for osbootcamp. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader. Wayne is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 24 posts at DZone.
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OtengiM replied on Wed, 2009/05/20 - 5:36pm
John Russell replied on Thu, 2009/05/21 - 4:56am
Downloaded RC1 64 bit, added
<string>-vm</string><string>/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0</string>
to Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist.
About 50% through a clean build I get the mac crash dialog.
I opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=277307
I can't wait for this to work. I have a project where I am using jdk 1.6 as the target VM, but if eclipse itself runs on 1.5 it can't run the 1.6 class files generated by the groovy plugin. Bad class version errors. Rats.
Miles Parker replied on Thu, 2009/05/21 - 12:12pm
"Runs on 32 and 64 bit so that you can use any Apple VM that you’d like."
Unfortunately, not quite true, as John found out above. Because of a long standing bug that Apple has not resolved, Java 1.6 compiler has a significant defect. This is pretty well known within Eclipse and is in the FAQ. See my mini-rant on Apple and Java.
José Luis Jaimes replied on Sat, 2009/05/23 - 1:04am