Thursday, October 7, 2010

Mac, eclipse, cocoa, netbeans and some more

Eclipse using cocoa on mac os x gave me the biggest headache...

could not cut, copy, paste in eclipse. nothing got copied to the clipboard and no help on the net to resolve this issue. after spending a lot of time, gave up and installed net beans. Am impressed with Netbeans, it is light, sleek and impressive. However, importing eclipse projects into netbeans isnt clean enough and hence gave up on getting everything right. too much initial investment for the move from eclipse to netbeans.

After many tries, got the EasyEclipse distro which is good and allows COPY & PASTE without any issues...

so far so good ... till the next blocking issue...


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figured out the entire mess ...

I was starting eclipse from shell and this caused all the problems. If you start eclipse as such, the paste command is not directed to the UI, but is pasted to the shell...

I started eclipse from the dock and everything worked ok... i had to own all the files in the workspace / projects and that was it... now copy / paste is no longer a problem...

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