Download: OS X El Capitan This downloads as a disk image named InstallMacOSX.dmg. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. Installing Eclipse on Mac OS XIn this video tutorial you will learn how to download the latest java version and the eclipse IDE for Mac OS X. We will go thro.
Configuring Eclipse on a Mac
Posted by David Chandler on July 8, 2010
I'm attempting to make the switch from Windows to Mac courtesy of my new employer (I'm pleased to be working with the GWT team at Google). While I very much like my shiny new MacBook Pro, I simply don't get all the Mac hype. The biggest problem has been that I'm a keyboard person, and Macs are for mouse people. Most Windows keyboard shortcuts have Mac equivalents, but they're just different enough to make for a bit of a learning curve, like Ctrl+arrows instead of Home and End. Thankfully, many keys can be remapped via System Preferences, but I haven't found a way to map the editing keys yet (anyone?). My biggest annoyance is that holding down the Alt key doesn't bring up menu shortcuts as on Windows. That makes going to Run | External Tools a real pain in Eclipse. Alt+R, E becomes Ctrl+F2,R,R,down arrow,E. Runner up annoyance is that there's no way to use the keyboard to click 'No' in a confirmation dialog.
At any rate, here are a few notes for other Eclipse users making the switch from Windows to Mac.
The first thing is to make the fonts readable. This is not necessarily a Mac thing, but the system font does seem especially small. In Eclipse preferences (Command+comma in most apps on the Mac–nice), I bumped up the font size (General | Appearance | Colors and Fonts | Basic | Text Font). This increases it for the Console window, but some plug-ins seem to use the system font instead, which leaves these 'over the hill' eyes squinting at logs. Which, in turn, brings us to an almost-unbelievable discovery: you can't change the system font on a latest, greatest Mac (OS X 10.6.3)! Problem still unsolved.
Now, time to move over my Eclipse external tools configurations from Windows. The external tools config to launch Finder in the selected project directory is very cool, but far from obvious. In the Run | External Tools | Configuration… dialog, enter the following information:
Location: /usr/bin/open
Working Directory: ${project_loc}
Arguments: .
Posted by David Chandler on July 8, 2010
I'm attempting to make the switch from Windows to Mac courtesy of my new employer (I'm pleased to be working with the GWT team at Google). While I very much like my shiny new MacBook Pro, I simply don't get all the Mac hype. The biggest problem has been that I'm a keyboard person, and Macs are for mouse people. Most Windows keyboard shortcuts have Mac equivalents, but they're just different enough to make for a bit of a learning curve, like Ctrl+arrows instead of Home and End. Thankfully, many keys can be remapped via System Preferences, but I haven't found a way to map the editing keys yet (anyone?). My biggest annoyance is that holding down the Alt key doesn't bring up menu shortcuts as on Windows. That makes going to Run | External Tools a real pain in Eclipse. Alt+R, E becomes Ctrl+F2,R,R,down arrow,E. Runner up annoyance is that there's no way to use the keyboard to click 'No' in a confirmation dialog.
At any rate, here are a few notes for other Eclipse users making the switch from Windows to Mac.
The first thing is to make the fonts readable. This is not necessarily a Mac thing, but the system font does seem especially small. In Eclipse preferences (Command+comma in most apps on the Mac–nice), I bumped up the font size (General | Appearance | Colors and Fonts | Basic | Text Font). This increases it for the Console window, but some plug-ins seem to use the system font instead, which leaves these 'over the hill' eyes squinting at logs. Which, in turn, brings us to an almost-unbelievable discovery: you can't change the system font on a latest, greatest Mac (OS X 10.6.3)! Problem still unsolved.
Now, time to move over my Eclipse external tools configurations from Windows. The external tools config to launch Finder in the selected project directory is very cool, but far from obvious. In the Run | External Tools | Configuration… dialog, enter the following information:
Location: /usr/bin/open
Working Directory: ${project_loc}
Arguments: .
Wow space party.. mac os. Oddinary highway mac os. This corresponds to typing 'open .' in a Terminal window, which launches Finder in the current directory. Now if I could just configure a shortcut key to launch Terminal so I don't have to click the icon in the dock every time… See Finder toolbar button to open Terminal to go the other way.
You can also create an external tool to launch Terminal in the selected project directory. Well, almost. To launch Terminal, you have to key into the Location field the full path /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal; however, it always opens in your home directory, even if you set Working Directory to the ${project_loc} variable. That defeats the purpose of this particular tool launcher. Fortunately, xterm is a little smarter, so the following settings work:
Location: /usr/X11/bin/xterm
Working Directory: ${project_loc}
Arguments: (none)
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Unfortunately, the default xterm font is miniscule.
Fortunately, you can put the following lines in ~/.Xdefaults to increase the default font size:
https://bestcfil793.weebly.com/commview-for-wifi-wep-crack-tutorial.html. XTerm*font: *-fixed-*-*-*-20-*
XTerm*boldFont: *-fixed-*-*-*-20-*
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Now we've replicated the command prompt external tool from Windows Eclipse, but unfortunately, it's a pain to get to the Run | External Tools menu via the keyboard. So we might as well punt and make it even easier with the mouse. thanks to this nifty open source plug-in for Eclipse. Once you've installed the plug-in, simply right-click on a project and select 'Open in Terminal' to open a new xterm. Someone should contribute 'Open in Finder' to that project, too.
Most keyboard shortcuts on Windows map directly to the map in the standard way; that is, you press the Command (Apple) key on the Mac instead of Ctrl on the PC. One notable exception is Ctrl+Space, which is identical on the Mac. Command+Space would be more consistent; however, this brings up the Spotlight search tool on the Mac. Since I'd rather have Ctrl+Space work in Eclipse where my muscle memory is expecting it, I swapped these keystrokes in Eclipse Preferences and Mac System Preferences. Another alternative is to disable Spotlight in favor of Google Quick Search Box.
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Eclipse on Mac tricks welcome in the comments. No flames, please.
