Well, Eclipse is letting me down. Little by little, here and there. We’ll see, but I am afraid and sad to say I may just end up going back to Textpad.
Reasons?
No macros support. What??? I know. Weird huh? Well, ok, so it’s possible you *may* be able to do macros, but it doesn’t support it natively.
I am going to try “MacroSchmacro” and see. If it does a good job, I’ll keep trucking with Eclipse. But if I can’t find macro support fairly soon (in the next few weeks) that’s a deal breaker. I use them to create all of my “getters” and “setters” for my Java Objects. Now, of course, there could be some other cool method to do this with, and maybe I’ll find that instead and be able to deal with the other few instances that I use macros for.
There are always tradeoffs to any software package.
One thing that Mac has never gotten a good grasp on (and is probably the MAIN reason I use Windows over Mac) is that you need to give your users encapsulation choices for their UI. This is where (IMO) Eclipse shines. This is also the reason I dislike Adobe and The GIMP.
With Eclipse, you can have a crazy disorganized mac-like interface (this is spread over my two monitors):
Or a nice encapsulated Windows like workspace (neatly fits on my primary monitor, leaving the second one open for reference or whatever):
Eclipse gives you a choice and that makes all the difference to me. Now if I want to take all eclipse related windows and minimize them, it’s a one click deal, and they go in one little spot on my taskbar at the bottom of the screen. When I want to make it smaller and throw it over onto my second screen, it’s a two click deal rather than a migration project.
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