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Why use eclipse?

in General Discussion  •  Other  •  2 years ago  
Hi all,

Just some general question

A friend of mine pointed me to the fact that you can create processing sketches in Eclipse. I tried it a little but didnt get anything to work, i should try harder yes.

Now i wonder whats the advantage of using eclipse? As i understand most people use it? Or are there other editors?

Thanks for any explanation!

j.


Replies(6)

Re: Why use eclipse?

2 years ago
It's all in the search
 Eclipse is an open source environment with all sorts of luxurious features like code hints and completion, error checking as you type, intelligent refactoring (renaming), javadoc generation etc. It's all quite heavyweight, but in short, it just ROCKS and above all, once setup correctly it works like a charm with the Processing libraries (as expected : ) !
http://processing.org/learning/eclipse/

Re: Why use eclipse?

2 years ago
If you are still struggling this tutorial help me a great deal getting my P5+Eclipse combo up and running

http://www.creativecoding.org/en/beyond/p5/eclipse_as_editor?DokuWiki=t2b534033v95e4kkgn53gn1fj5

Re: Why use eclipse?

2 years ago
I really like the combo of making a class library in Eclipse and playing around with it in Processing.

Re: Why use eclipse?

2 years ago
Code Completion and JavaDocs make worthwhile, the real time error checking/reporting make it so much better for finding bugs. Built in debugger lets you step through the code and watch variables.