[ jEdit-devel ] jEdit for Mac

[Matthew K. H. <mat...@ga...>]

Greetings:

I'm trying to get jEdit running smoothly on the Mac.  When I do, I'll 
make it publicly available.  There are a couple issues to be 
addressed as far as I can tell so far: OS-level events and key 
bindings.

(1)  The MacOS can send several events to applications (including 
Java applications), including "open a file", "quit now", "show an 
about box", etc.  I am writing a "Mac" plugin that will respond to 
these OS-level events to make jEdit more "mac-like" for the user.

My question: How should I invoke 
InputHandler.executeAction(ActionListener listener, Object source, 
String actionCommand) from within the plugin so that I can respond to 
one of these OS-type events?

I see that I can call jEdit.getInputHandler() to get the current 
InputHandler.  With that reference, I see that I could invoke 
executeAction().  But, what do I use for the arguments?  I assume 
source = this (i.e my plugin) is fine.  Is (new about()).getName() OK 
for the actionCommand string?  And, what should be used for the 
listener?

Is there a better (or another) way?

Thanks in advance for any input on this topic.

Cheers,

Matt


P.S.  The second issue is that the key bindings (as currently 
implemented in jEdit) do not work properly on the Mac L&F.  I'll be 
looking into this issue later, so I don't have any questions now.  If 
anyone has any hints or experience with this, you could let me know.
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