Recent changes to bugs

Does not work anymore with JRE 9 (and probably newer too)

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:11:37 -0000

Hi,
It took me quite some time to debug this so I'm posting here in case it will help anyone :

Issue:
I had a problem where my macro inserting text would be totally messed up after closing and reopening Eclipse.
Instead of inserting my text, it would only insert some blanks lines.

Upon exporting my macro before and afer reopening Eclipse, it appeared that the .xml file was formatted differently.

Fix
tl;dr: Stick to JRE 8 (I'm using jre1.8.0_231)
Unless it's been overridden by something else, you can configure which VM Eclipse should use in the eclipse.ini file. Add this option (adapted to your system of course) right before the -vmargs option :

-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_231/bin/server/jvm.dll

Upon investigating the code and different Eclipse configurations, it appeared that the "TransformerFactory" used to store the macros as a "IPreferenceStore" changed behaviour starting from JRE 9.
I didn't push the analysis to check JRE 9 release note but it seems that the transformer is now also doing some prettifying which mess up the macro that include newlines in their commands and possibly others.

Considering the plugin code, I suspect this line to be the culprit but can't be sure of it, I didn't regenerate the plugin :
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

Cheers.

Would you consider migrating the code to git ?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:16:55 -0000

Got a problem with recent versions of eclipse (since like 1.5 year ago) : Eclipse formats the .xml of the macro, messing them up.
I would like to access code easily on a git repo for debugging purposes.

Installation Repo not available

Anonymous — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:49:51 -0000

The plugin is not installable with the default install options of eclipse. The repo isn't found.
Link http://puremvcnotificationviewer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/PracticallyMacroGoogleUpdateSite is dead.

#20 Nullpointer

Philip Gruebele — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:56:32 -0000

I am using Eclipse Luna

#23 Recording and playback not functioning on fresh install

Ernest — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:23:01 -0000

Do you get any errors in the Eclipse error log? As I mentioned above, I could not recreate the problem.

#23 Recording and playback not functioning on fresh install

Ernest — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:25:24 -0000

having the same error here! each time i reboot my ubuntu (14.04.2 LTS)
or cloose eclipse CDT (Luna R2 4.4.2) i get the same error and i have to
create the macro all over again, is there anything i can do?

#23 Recording and playback not functioning on fresh install

Ernest — Mon, 25 May 2015 19:17:25 -0000

Do you have the focus in an editor window when you press the record button? If there's no editor context, maybe you could receive that kind of error message. I pulled down the 64 bit version ..

#23 Recording and playback not functioning on fresh install

Daniel Sokolowski — Mon, 25 May 2015 04:18:49 -0000

I have just downloaded the Luna (Windows (x86_64)) runtime from here: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.4.2-201502041700/ and installed Practicaly Macro from the update site: http://puremvcnotificationviewer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/PracticallyMacroGoogleUpdateSite

Still when I click the record button the recording status overlay never is shown in the status bar; so I assume it's not working.

#23 Recording and playback not functioning on fresh install

Ernest — Sun, 24 May 2015 15:30:05 -0000

Hmm.. I downloaded Luna Eclipse: (Version: Luna Service Release 2 (4.4.2)
Build id: 20150219-0600) and installed Practically Macro through the Eclipse Marketplace. It seems to work okay. I was able to click record, make a macro, and play it.

#23 Recording and playback not functioning on fresh install

Daniel Sokolowski — Sun, 24 May 2015 00:56:57 -0000

The version was 'eclipse-platform-4.4M6-win32-x86_64'