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It's nice to know that the default color isn't black.

Maybe one of their developers has astigmatism.

 

For plain text with limited color changes, like this blog entry, I don't mind a white background. It's only when there's lots of different colors that I find it overwhelming.

Realized the Houston Arcade Expo's only a month away, so jEdit updates are going on the back burner for a bit as I like to revise my presentation for each event.

I see this is on the "back burner" I just want to mention before I forget.

In Mac OSX it seems apple has stopped updating Java.

You must install newer versions from the Java website downloads.

Even though I was at the latest OSX 10.9.5, the newest Java I had was 1.6.

 

The jEdit 5.2 pre-release requires Java version 1.7.

jEdit 5.2 is nicer for a number of reasons. It acts more like an Application as it doesn't spawn a java program.

The errors (reported as warnings at the bottom right) in running the 5.1 in Java 1.6 are gone.

It has a "jE" icon now.

 

I don't think it is coming across the fact that this is less like a text editor and more like an IDE environment.

Granted it doesn't have the Utility Program Editors that Visual bB has for sprites, playfields, music and sound, color value chooser, and exhaustive syntax checking (i.e. If a goto label has a label to go to or not).

I may still start my Basic projects in Visual bB because it has helped a great deal pointing out errors, but when projects get large near the end, the Visual bB editor becomes unable to handle things and I find it best to switch to jEdit which can parallel the way I work in Visual bB.

I have it set so I can make changes, save, compile, and run Stella just like I use Visual bB.

It's conceivable we could add things like a sprite and playfield editor via jEdit's plugin support.