[bkocik]

Will there ever be UML functionality on Mac OS X?

Currently when I try to create a new UML Model Repository, I’m greeted with an error message telling me this only works on Windows and Linux.

-Bill Kocik
America Online, Inc.

[Greg]

@bkocik wrote:

Will there ever be UML functionality on Mac OS X?

Absolutely, as soon as the Eclipse Platform team fixes this bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=67384

As you can see towards the end there seems to be some progress in this area so we are hopeful this will be fixed soon and we can add the MyUML capabilities for MyEclipse to Mac OS X platform. Thanks for your support and let us know if we can help with anything else during your evaluation.

[bkocik]

@support-greg wrote:

Absolutely, as soon as the Eclipse Platform team fixes this bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=67384

. . .

Thanks for your support and let us know if we can help with anything else during your evaluation.

Actually I’m not evaluating, I’m a paid subscriber (with no regrets). 😉

Thanks very much for the information and the timely reply. I’ll keep watching for the fix.

[hadleyhope]

I have just subscribed to the professional edition on the strength of the new feature section detailing the UML modelling and round trip.

Unless I missed it, I cannot see anywhere that it states UML is not available on OS X, and to say the least am a bit disappointed in paying the professional price (especially a couple of days after the lower price offer expired ;-).

Will MyEclipse be extending the subscription for Mac users that have purchased the professional edition?

[bkocik]

<i>Unless I missed it, I cannot see anywhere that it states UML is not available on OS X</i>

To be fair, it does say it right at the top of the page for that feature:

http://www.myeclipseide.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-8.html

“MyEclipse-UML
Pro Version Only (Windows & Linux)”

=)

[hadleyhope]

[quote=”bkocikTo be fair, it does say it right at the top of the page for that feature:

http://www.myeclipseide.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-8.html

“MyEclipse-UML
Pro Version Only (Windows & Linux)”

=)

Doh, your right, I got excited by all those lovely UML diagrams. Looking at the Eclipse bug though it does look like nothing is going to change…

[jlryan@mitre.org]

Does this help: from – http://swingwt.sourceforge.net/faq.php

Q. The SwingWT demos work fine, but my applications don’t work on MacOS X?

A. The Java threading model is fundamentally broken in MacOSX and it requires the SWT event loop to run on the main thread (SwingWT spawns a new dispatch thread on other platforms).

You can get around this by:

In the main method for your program, call initialiseMacOSX() with your startup code called from a new Runnable.

      public static void main(String[] args) {
          if (SwingWTUtils.isMacOSX()) {
              SwingWTUtils.initialiseMacOSX(new Runnable() {
                  public void run() {
                      runMyStartupCode();
                  }
              });
          }
          else
              runMyStartupCode();
      }

This code will work with other platforms since it just calls the startup code as normal if you are not running under Mac OS X.

Use the java_swt application in SwingWT/lib/macosx_carbon instead regular old java to start your app.

See SwingWT/bin/macosx_rundemo.sh for an example.

[john@cybertrace.com]

So long my eclipse, sorry you didn’t think the Mac os was orth supporting. I have everything I NEED from Sun. I still like some things here but…

[crisswaddle]

This thread was created in Sept 05. This is April 07, and we STILL HAVE NO UML for MyEclipse.
Reading from another thread, only one developer at Genuitec is using a mac, and so it seems there is a limited interest in supporting the mac platform. Perhaps its time we as users start considering other tools.

[jcorbin4607]

Have you considered NetBeans (www.netbeans.org). Their UML plugin is decent and works on the Mac just fine.

I’ve been(and still am) a user of MyEclipseIDE for well over 2 years now and about 1 year ago moved to using a Mac (Intel) as my primary development platform. I too am extremely disappointed at the lip service that is being paid by Genuitec on this issue. I cannot count the number of times that they have said it is a high priority for them but they have to get their features out the door first.

It is in Genuitec’s best interest to get it resolved no matter where they think the responsibility lies…

Whether Genuitec believes it or not, this issue is going to cause people to find other tools for their object modeling. In fact, I’ve started using NetBeans 5.5 and frankly like it quite a bit.

Regards

[Greg Lloyd]

hmmmm, Netbeans. Maybe I will try that again as well.

[jmill]

Looks like the bug is fixed now? So when will MyEclipse support UML on os x?

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