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20031217 Wednesday December 17, 2003

Eclipse Plugins on OS X and 3.0 M5 I did a bit of tinkering yesterday and today and finally got the Colorer plugin to work on OS X. From the Colorer Forums, you can now see how to build the colorer plugin for OS X and how to get the plugin working with Eclipse M5. I also discovered that the Lomboz plugin now supports M5 too (even on OS X!).

So, you ask, "What happened to using IDEA?" I do use it, but not as much as Eclipse. The main problem I have with IDEA is that I can't have more than one project open at a time. I typically copy code from AppFuse and it's just easier in Eclipse - I can even copy a whole class and it renames the package for me. And now that I've discovered the Ant View in Eclipse, they're pretty much equal to me. Another reason for targeting Eclipse is there's more users. Most of the folks that download AppFuse use Eclipse - so being aligned with the my "users" (all 6 of them) makes things much easier. Posted in Java at Dec 17 2003, 08:33:07 AM MST 3 Comments

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<quote>The main problem I have with IDEA is that I can't have more than one project open at a time</quote>

Are you kidding? When you open a project, IDEA ask you if it should open it in the current window or open another window...

Posted by jeje on December 17, 2003 at 09:55 AM MST #

I realize this - but if I choose to open it in the current window, I want it to leave my existing project open - so I can have both open in the same frame. It does *not* do this (at least in 3.0.5).

Posted by Matt Raible on December 17, 2003 at 10:02 AM MST #

No, not in the same *frame*, but that's not what you originally wrote, is it... I've not checked the latest EAP builds to see if they support that, as the multi-module support they've recently done sounds as if it might/could do this, but I've no idea if it actually does.

Posted by Gwyn Evans on December 18, 2003 at 04:49 AM MST #

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