[Bluej-discuss] bluej-discuss Digest, Vol 52, Issue 7

[Davin McCall]

Jason Madar wrote:
> Hi Davin,
>
> The plug-in can be found at http://env3d.sourceforge.net 
>
> Thank you for giving this your attention.  I really appreciate it.
>
> Jason
>   

We've had a look and think we have sorted out the problem. (Apparently 
calling setVisible() on a frame results in it stealing the focus, even 
if it was already visible; the change between 2.1.3 and 2.2.0 is that 
2.2.0 calls setVisible unconditionally on the frame when an extension 
tries to examine an object).

There will probably be a maintenance release of BlueJ soon, the fix will 
be included in that.

I just realised that you are the author of the extension. I have a few 
quick comments for you:
- the "quickstart with BlueJ" page at 
http://env3d.sourceforge.net/?page=quickstart_bluej has a code sample 
that doesn't compile.
- closing the env3d window seems to do a System.exit() which also closes 
BlueJ unexpectedly - that's not good; it doesn't even give BlueJ a 
chance to save open files.
- nowhere on the sourceforge page does it mention that the extension is 
Windows only (BlueJ also runs on Mac and linux, and others).

Otherwise, it seems quite nice.

Davin