Error using Eclipse

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Jay Kyburz(Posted 2005) [#1]
I've been having a look at Eclipse. Contrary to some of my earlier posts I think it probably is a good IDE for cross platform bmax coding.

I get the folloing error when its starts trying to parse my code. Any ideas?

Is Brucey sill working on it?

Error May 05, 2005 10:29:55.541 Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.core.runtime".
java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.brucey.bmx.ui.editor.BMXImageDescriptor.getSize(BMXImageDescriptor.java:47)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.CompositeImageDescriptor.getImageData(CompositeImageDescriptor.java:179)
at net.brucey.bmx.core.dom.BMXAbstractVariable.getOutlineImage(BMXAbstractVariable.java:256)
at net.brucey.bmx.ui.editor.outline.BMXContentOutlineLabelProvider.getImage(BMXContentOutlineLabelProvider.java:18)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.doUpdateItem(TreeViewer.java:117)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer$UpdateItemSafeRunnable.run(AbstractTreeViewer.java:83)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:616)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:747)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.doUpdateItem(AbstractTreeViewer.java:464)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$UpdateItemSafeRunnable.run(StructuredViewer.java:128)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:616)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:747)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.updateItem(StructuredViewer.java:1374)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.createTreeItem(AbstractTreeViewer.java:381)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer$1.run(AbstractTreeViewer.java:361)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.createChildren(AbstractTreeViewer.java:342)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.internalExpandToLevel(AbstractTreeViewer.java:906)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.internalExpandToLevel(AbstractTreeViewer.java:915)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.expandToLevel(AbstractTreeViewer.java:498)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.expandToLevel(AbstractTreeViewer.java:482)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.AbstractTreeViewer.expandAll(AbstractTreeViewer.java:472)
at net.brucey.bmx.ui.editor.outline.BMXContentOutlinePage.update(BMXContentOutlinePage.java:192)
at net.brucey.bmx.ui.editor.DocumentListener$2.run(DocumentListener.java:48)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:106)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:2750)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2435)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1377)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1348)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:254)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:141)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:96)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:335)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:273)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:129)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:185)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:704)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:688)


N(Posted 2005) [#2]
Unfortunately, I can't help you with this because I don't have the source for Brucey's plugin. Anyhow, I e-mailed Brucey about a month and a half ago asking about the status of the plugin and received no response, so it's either dead or Brucey is just not here anymore (which would imply dead-ification).


FlameDuck(Posted 2005) [#3]
Like Noel I also e-mailed Brucey to enquire on the status of the plug-in a while back, and recieved no reply.

I just use Eclipse as an editor, and use the regular BlitzMAX IDE for compilation.


Jay Kyburz(Posted 2005) [#4]
im finding on the Mac its not even properly parsing my code propey.


Sarge(Posted 2005) [#5]
FlameDuck with the blitzmax plugin you can compile within Eclipse.


FlameDuck(Posted 2005) [#6]
FlameDuck with the blitzmax plugin you can compile within Eclipse.
I can't. Don't ask me why, it just stopped working all of a sudden. Not like it matters much anyhoo.


N(Posted 2005) [#7]
I just create everything in a Standard C/C++ Make project and write simple makefiles for building my code. Because I have bmk in my PATH, I can just call it from anywhere. Happy slappy setup.