Re: [ jEdit-users ] FirstMate plugin not working with jedit 4.3pre17?

[shawn s. <clo...@gm...>]

Ahh, simply changing the JVMVersion from 1.5+ to 1.6+ in
/Applications/jEdit.app/Contents/Info.plist fixed the problem. jEdit
launches using the correct version of java now. Thanks.


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, shawn sutherland<clo...@gm...> wrote:
> Thank you this gave me just enough information to, after much
> prodding, get things working. It seems that on the mac, jedit
> somewhere caches which version of java you are using and then uses
> that version even after switching versions with the java selector
> application that comes in OS X. I could see this by running "java
> -version" in the terminal and getting back that the default was indeed
> 1.6 but then when doing a Help > About jEdit and seeing at the bottom
> it was still using 1.5.
>
> So... starting jedit with "java -jar
> /Applications/jEdit.app/Contents/Resources/Java/jedit.jar" I was able
> to get it to use the default version (1.6) of java on the system and
> both plugins load fine now. But... I lack the mac integration it
> seems. File menu is no longer in the right spot...
>
> So... now I just need to figure out how to change that in the
> launcher, or perhaps just installing jedit with version 1.6 as the
> default will do the trick?
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/7/26 shawn sutherland <clo...@gm...>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > After upgrading my various jEdit installs on several machine I'm finding
>> > that the FirstMate plugin found at
>> > http://www.rutherfurd.net/jedit/plugins/firstmate/ no longer loads. I get a
>> > "Cannot start: java.lang.UnsupportedClass VersionError: Bad version number
>> > in .class file. Try updating to a newer version of the plugin."
>>
>> This just means that the plugin was built against java 1.6 by mistake.
>> If you upgrade to 1.6, it will work, and we should open a ticket to
>> have it packaged again for 1.5
>