Re: NetBeand 3.6 on Panther

Tim Boudreau wrote:

> Bryan Boone wrote:
> 
>> I've had no problem running 3.6 on Panther.
>> ...That being said I still can't get some of the menu options to work 
>> (like Find vs. Find in files) if I use the option that pushes the menu 
>> into the System Menu.
>> -Bryan
> 
> 
> I hope to have this fixed for 4.0 - the hook NetBeans uses to update 
> menus before they're posted (very old code) is only called when the menu 
> is constructed if you're running on the mac.  There is a better place to 
> hook it which will work, it simply will mean a bunch of changes to a 
> bunch of things in a giant hairball of code.
> 
> As of 3.6 there is a way for a module to replace the entire main menu 
> with its own implementation, so at worst, it might end up being a 
> separate mac-specific module (some beginnings of this are in 
> contrib/menus - ideally it could provide a way to bridge legacy actions 
> and some new clean framework for handling actions).
> 
> -Tim
> 
> 
Cool.
As of the past 3 months, I've been using Panther as my only development 
platform.  The best part about it is that there doesn't seem to be the
"pregnant pause" of garbage collection on the Mac (or is it my imagination?)

-Bryan