Re: Error in beanshell macro

On 08/27/2017 09:54 PM, Dale Anson wrote:
> Another option:
> 
> insertSpaces(numberOfSpaces)
> {
>    caretPosition = textArea.getCaretPosition();
>    for (i = 0; i < numberOfSpaces; i++)
>    {
>      buffer.insert(caretPosition, " ");
>    }
> }
> 
> 
> I can't seem to reproduce your original problem, so I don't have any advice
> there.
> 
> Dale
> 

OK, I'll keep that in mind in case my current solution starts failing.

Regards,  Jim

> 
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Jim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/27/2017 03:14 PM, Alan Ezust wrote:
>>
>>> First of all, after disabling all plugins, you might want to try
>>> restarting
>>> jEdit.
>>> It is possible that unloading certain plugins will break jEdit.
>>>
>>> If you can determine which plugin is causing the problem, that would be
>>> useful info.
>>>
>>
>> One of the many things I tried was disabling all pulgins and I have
>> restarted jEdit many times without solving the problem.
>>
>> Finally, you might want to try installing Oracle JDK if you still have the
>>> same issue.
>>>
>>
>> I have jEdit on 4 partitions, 2 on my desktop and 2 on my labtop. The
>> macro runs fine on my ubuntu 16.04 partition with Oracle JDK. I installed
>> OpenJDK and it still ran with no error. On the other 3 partitions  running
>> the same version of jEdit and OpenJDK the macro generated the error.
>>
>> The method not found is a very commonly used method that has been in the
>>> jEdit API for ages, so I suspect you either have a broken process (should
>>> be fixed after a jEdit restart) or a JDK with something missing from it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't know java but I thought that it must be available. It must be some
>> kind of configuration problem.  I had the macro located in macros/MyMacros
>> on my home folder, so I moved it to the jEdit macros folder but that still
>> didn't solve the problem.
>>
>> I finally got the macro running by substituting another method.
>>
>> insertSpaces(numberOfSpaces)
>> {
>>    for (i = 0; i < numberOfSpaces; i++)
>>    {
>>      //textArea.insert(" ", false);
>>      textArea.userInput(' ');
>>    }
>> }
>>
>> If I get some time I will switch back to the insert method and see if I
>> can run down the problem, but I don't know if I can find it. I tried about
>> everything I could think of before I discovered the userInput method.
>>
>> Regards,  Jim
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Jim <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/21/2017 09:52 PM, Jim wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/19/2017 02:12 PM, Alan Ezust wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh I remember having a similar (but slightly different) problem with
>>>>>> Java
>>>>>> on Linux, where concatenation of double-quoted string literals caused a
>>>>>> weird runtime exception related to StringConcatFactory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had to apt-get install libatk-wrapper-java before I could get string
>>>>>> concatenation to work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just installed that package and I still get this error:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sourced file: /home/jfb/.jedit/macros/MyMacros/Columnize_Code.bsh :
>>>>> Error in method invocation: Method insert( java.lang.String, boolean )
>>>>> not
>>>>> found in class'org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.JEditTextArea' : at Line: 7 :
>>>>>     in file: /home/jfb/.jedit/macros/MyMacros/Columnize_Code.bsh
>>>>>     : textArea .insert ( " " , false )
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running the same version if jEdit (5.4.0) on both ubuntu 16.04 and
>>>>> mint 18. It works on ubuntu 16.04 but not on mint 18. on ubuntu 16.04 I
>>>>> am
>>>>> running Oracle java version 1.8.0_121 and on mint 18 I am running
>>>>> openjdk
>>>>> version 1.8.0_131. I would like to avoid the hassle of installing Oracle
>>>>> java on my mint 18 partition without any assurances that it will solve
>>>>> the
>>>>> problem if I can.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any other ideas? I am sort of stuck here as I don't know
>>>>> java
>>>>> or beanshell for that matter. It took a lot of searching and trial and
>>>>> error for me to write it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,  Jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I booted to my ubuntu 16.04 partition and installed openjkd.  I used the
>>>> macro and it worked fine with no errors.  I tried disabling all plugins
>>>> and
>>>> still get the error.
>>>>
>>>> I checked the docs and the method is supposed to be in that class. Not
>>>> knowing Java I don't know how to check and see if it is actually present
>>>> on
>>>> my hard drive.  Is there a way to copy over the file that would contain
>>>> that class from my working 16.04 install to my Mint 18 install?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,  Jim
>>>>
>>>>
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