[Viplugin-user] viPlugin and Mac OSX

[Jason V. <vin...@ea...>]

(Forgive me if some of the logic here is flawed.  This is after a 2 day 
course in plugins and Eclipse development.)

I found something interesting with viPlugin on Mac OSX, but I am not 
sure why it occurs.

This snip is found in viLayer.java :

e.display.getActiveShell().setImeInputMode(SWT.NONE);

e.display returns null for some reason, while Display.getCurrent() 
returns the current display:

Display.getCurrent().getActiveShell().setImeInputMode(SWT.NONE);

Since the latter is a Static reference, there is the potential issue of 
performance, but I am not sure how much this really will impact this 
plugin.  I am going to do some more research on this and test the other 
features between my pc and mac to see if there are other platform 
dependent discrepancies.  One thing i did notice is that you import the 
org.eclipse.ui.win32_2.1.0/workbenchwin32.jar, which has no correlating 
jar in the OSX release.  Upon further inspection, I see this jar has 
something to do with OLE editors, but I searched the source and didn't 
find references to it anywhere.  Am I missing your reference to this 
jar, or is it unneeded?  I think this could be one of the potential 
reasons for the differences b/w mac and windows, but w/ no references 
it doesn't stand out as the culprit.

Other than this little issue, this is a great start for a very useful 
plugin.

Thanks for the hard work,
Jason