eclipse and text direction

[Chuck Robey]

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I'm still having these little startup troubles, in getting my Java environment
complete enough so that I can do a good professional job.  I chose the
eclipse-devel port after the jdk16, and then added a UML editor (this, not a
port) called "Violet" because it both had the ability to let me draw enough EML
to get my idea across, and has a zero-sized learning curve (good for someone
starting out).  I hit a problem, and it seems that there aren't ANY user-level
mailing lists for eclipse, so in desperation, although i really don't think it's
a FreeBSD-connected problem, I'm going to set the problem out here.  Either an
answer directly to the problem, OR a pointer to a place a user can ask questions
for eclipse, would really help me.

OK.  To begin with, Violet works fine from the java (from our jdk16 port),
starting it like "java -jar jarname", it only demonstrates the inverted text
problem if I start it inside eclipse.  Starting a Java prject directly, and
editing a class, the text direction on the editor is just fine (left to right),
but if I do anything in Violet inside of Eclipse, the text direction is backwards.

I was told on the eclipse IRC channel about the "dir" thing, which can be ltr or
rtl, but I can't see how to apply that knowledge.  Trying to ask really hard
questions like this on a IRC channel, it's a losing game, which is why i was so
disappointed when I found no eclipse user mailing lists.

My guess is, Violet is fine.  I have a Gentoo Linux box on the AMD64 chassis or
mine, and it runs eclipse/Violet perfectly, so i suspect it's something dealing
wtih eclipse, but I'm NOT accusing our port, I really haven't enough info to do
that.

Sure appreciate any help.  This kind of question is not exactly off-topic, but
too close for comfort, for me, if I found an alternative, I'd use it.
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