[eclipse-dev] MacOS X: Interface bugs

["Jeremy E. Denton" <majeric@xxxxxxx>]

Just noticed a couple of things about the interface in Eclipse for 
MacOS X. I looked in bugzilla to see if the issues show up and they 
don't seem to. I don't have the time to figure out how to add bug 
reports (bugzilla may be powerful interface but the learning curve is 
too severe.)

1) Right clicking on an item in the file list (say for selecting the 
properties of a project) will not generate the context menu for the 
item the mouse is hovering over. It creates the context menu for the 
previously selected item. In other words, it doesn't select the new 
item first and then generate the list. A little annoying when you have 
to "left-click" on an item and then "right click" on it later.

2) Textboxes  (or whatever the equivalent in the SWT) hide their 
contents as if the content has been completely scrolled to the right. 
(so the text is hidden under the left edge of the box). It's a little 
annoying when you think that the build directory hasn't been added when 
you look under the source properties and you end up with a weird build 
path like:

myproject/build/myproject/build

because you'd incidentally added the path twice.

I would hazard to guess that the textbox is tempting to show you the 
right most content but rather than aligning it with the right of the 
textbox, it aligns it with the left of the text box. (aligning it with 
the right of the textbox is something you might want to do when evoking 
a edit mode for the textbox and you want to default to adding at the 
end of the textbox contents).

Otherwise I'm exceptionally pleased by Eclipse. It's an excellent IDE 
which looks great on the Mac.

Jeremy E. Denton