So I've fully switched from Eclipse Ganymede to Galileo, at work and at home. At home I thought I'd try the the Mac Cocoa 64-bit version (available here) to give the new Apple JDK 1.6.0_13 for a spin.
Unfortunately when I fire up the 64-bit Eclipse, I get no input from the keyboard. All mouse driven input woks fine, but I get no joy with the keyboard. I did a bit of fiddling to get it to work, but gave up and reverted to JDK 1.5.x. If The Internet has any advice, I'd love to get it working, it felt really snappy from what I could see...
Since getting my Mac earlier this year, the (weak) Java support is my biggest gripe. Why is Java the poor cousin, my guess is that Apple doesn't want any competition from within, so it's easier to "cripple" Java in OS X. I won't bleat on any more about it, there are plenty more knowledgeable folk blogging about it.
UPDATE: Looks like this is a known issue with attaching PC keyboards to a mac and using Eclipse 64-bit Cocoa.
UPDATE2: I've posted somewhat of a fix, you can read about it here.
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my keyboard is working:
newest MacBookPro17
OSX 10.5.7
MBP keyboard works
and also a connected Lenovo (ThinkPad) UltraNav Keyboard.
I had Keyboard-not-working problems from time to time while testing Galileo Cocoa (32-bit) but thought it was OSX because of many USB devices
just migrating my daily work to cocoa-64 - I'll watch if it happens to me again
ekke
@ezaero:
Did you enable full keyboard controll in the system settings? I think, it's at the bottom of the last tab of the keyboard settings.
@ekke:
do you have keyboard shortcuts for widgets with mnemonics, e.g. in the Find dialog like pressing ALT-N for find or ALT-d for replace/find on Windows and Linux?
Wolfgang
@ekke:
It's interesting you mention USB, I have a MBP 15", but I use a Microsoft Natural Keyboard via USB. It never occured to me to use my MBP keyboard. I'll try this out this evening.
@wolfgang:
I'll check out this setting. The problem I'm having is pretty fundamental as no SWT text component accepts input from my keyboard.
@wolfgang no - there's nothing like ALT-N inside the FIND dialog
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