IDE choice and assistance please

spacewalk..

IDE choice and assistance please

in Integration and Hardware • 5 months ago

I've got some background in programming and a lot of other IT background (but not any Java related yet, so P5 is first into that field).

I'd like to use a different IDE rather than the processing IDE for easier code management etc. I've read the pages on using JEdit and Eclipse, and even seen a mention somewhere about Notepad++.

However, I've not gotten any of them to work "completely" (meaning with shortcuts, ability to select code hiding/folding blocks, integration into Processing to run). I have gotten Eclipse to run P5 scripts. I was able to follow some of the JEdit instructions, but perhaps some things have changed as I couldn't follow or find the location to load the shortcut file.

So, since I'm not particular (yet ha-ha) about which IDE I use (they are all equally new to me but I'm used to some of the Micrsoft / Visual Studio type tools) I'd like your feedback and experience with various IDE's using the latest 2.0b8.

Your recommendations and suggestions or tips on getting the most out of the IDE with P5 would be greatly appreciated.

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amnon.owed

Re: IDE choice and assistance please

5 months ago

Another one that is often praised is Sublime Text 2...

http://vimeo.com/45573600
https://github.com/b-g/processing-sublime

spacewalk..

Re: Re: IDE choice and assistance please

5 months ago

While the Vimeo video was neat to watch, it shows that you are supposed to use the "External Editor" option in processing, which was removed in 2.0b4 ( http://wiki.processing.org/w/Using_an_External_Editor). I did read the github notes and see it says that it should still work in 2.0b6 etc, so maybe I'll give that a try too.

Any other notes or tips with this one?

Thanks for mentioning it.

PhiLho

Re: IDE choice and assistance please

5 months ago

You are mixing up some concepts... Basically, Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA are IDEs, ie. mammoths good for editing, but also for debugging, using auto-completion, intelligent search of code elements, knowledge of context (local vs. global, etc.). They maintain a database of the current code, and are able to compile it on the fly, or even when you run the code.

JEdit, Notepad++, Sublime Text are just text editors (OK, code editors), with limited knowledge of code rules (depending extensions, scripts, etc.). They are useful, but they are not IDE. You still need to run a Java compiler to get the .class files, and the Java runtime to run them, with perhaps a delicate management of the classpath, etc.

Chrisir

Re: IDE choice and assistance please

5 months ago

there are some extensions to the processing IDE e.g. by manindra here on the forum, maybe that is interesting for you too

spacewalk..

Re: Re: IDE choice and assistance please

5 months ago

Thanks Chrisir - I did a forum search and found some of his work to look into to modify PDE. But at this point (see below) I think I'd rather just setup Eclipse to do the work. I'm partial to the Visual Studio layout, but only because it's what I'm most familiar with over the years of rare usage.

spacewalk..

Re: IDE choice and assistance please

5 months ago

I've seen a webpage about Arduino plugin to Visual Studio. Since Arduino is built on Processing I think, does anyone know of a plug-in for Processing to Visual Studio. That would actually be ideal to me.

But if not, I'd appreciate some guidance on making Eclipse rock with all the cool IDE tools it can handle.

Thanks

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