Krylar Administrator Posts: 502 From: MD, USA Registered: 03-05-2001 |
Hiya, Anyone know anything about this tool? Good/bad/indifferent? Obviously their site says it's great! But it'd be pretty stupid for them to say something like "well, we wouldn't use the product, but with any luck you will." Thanks! -Krylar ------------------ |
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Christian Member Posts: 400 From: Australia Registered: 09-15-2002 |
Terrible. Truly awful. I've been developing for Palm so we looked at it seriously and used another IDE at a 1/4 the price, 4 times as useful. |
Imsold4christ Member Posts: 305 From: Gresham, OR, US Registered: 01-20-2001 |
That's the IDE my school has. I've been using it for about 2 years now. I kinda like it. But I don't really have -any- experience with other IDEs so have nothing to really compare it to. Couldn't tell you if it's better or worse than any other. They have this little "Code Completion" feature that helps people who forget the exact name of the function they want to implement. Like say I'm coding java and I have TextField named "Bob", and I want to have the program put some text in Bob, but I can't remember the code to do it. So I'll just type "Bob." and wait a second or two, and then this little window pops up with all of the different functions that could possibly be used on Bob. Then all I have to do is scroll through the list until I see something that looks like what I want. The correct code, by the way would be Bob.setText("Whatever"); Anyway, I don't know if that was a very clear explanation, I guess you'd just have to see it for yourself. I thought it was cool though. †Caleb† ------------------ |
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Christian Member Posts: 400 From: Australia Registered: 09-15-2002 |
Most IDE's have intellisense. |
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
I have no idea. I did see a dude at my Basketball class who had a shirt that said that. He's not the greatest player. But, hey, many aren't. I'm not picking on him. Cuz I been stinking lately. off topic. sorry. ------------------ |
Wacko4X Member Posts: 92 From: Bellvue, WA, USA Registered: 08-21-2002 |
I am sooo tired angel that I just found that soo funny... wait .... LOL hahaha hehe ho.... ok yah... I use code warrior tooo (considering me and Caleb both take programming at the same school  ) and I dont know of any others... I would like to find some program that just compiles instantly without all the hassle... but what can you do?unless any of you guys knows of some other nice, cheap, freeware, java, compliers?? any?? oh well.... |
Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
notepad is a great IDE... kryler, the question is what do you need? what are you doing.. what compiler are you using? there are plenty of good free IDE's out there. ------------------ |
CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
quote: Sun's HotSpot interpreter/compiler is one of the best, and it's free. It won't do a full compile to machine code, but it's much faster than other interpreters. It even compares in speed (said to be faster in some cases) to other compilers because it profiles the code and does plenty of optimizations and compilations while the code is running. If you want full compilation, there's a Java compiler in the GCC suite of tools. There's plenty of free/open source IDEs for Java. I'm currently deciding between jEdit and NetBeans. I've used BlueJ also, but it's purposely lacking some features because it's a learning tool for schools and colleges. I've also played around with some UML tools. There's plenty of options that don't cost a dime ------------------ |
AmazingJas Member Posts: 437 From: Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA Registered: 04-03-2003 |
I have seen it given away free on magazine cover disks occasionally (probably older version, but was labelled 'PRO'), and gave a copy to my brother because he likes to do Palm stuff, and he still uses it. Are there any other free programming tools for Palm? |
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Krylar Administrator Posts: 502 From: MD, USA Registered: 03-05-2001 |
Klemsy...I'm just into looking at new technologies and such, mostly. But it would be nice to have a full-featured system that handles code check-in/check-out, to-do lists, integration with MSV Studio 6.0, project management, asset management, etc. Is there anything like that? Is that too much to ask for? -Krylar ------------------ |
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CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
I dunno about all that. I've seen some of those features in seperare packages. ------------------ |
BlazeQ Member Posts: 260 From: USA Registered: 05-11-2002 |
I know Code Warrior Wireless Studio received a 2002 Frontline Award from GameDeveloper, but that's the limit of my knowledge on this subject... ------------------ |
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Christian Member Posts: 400 From: Australia Registered: 09-15-2002 |
I guess the real question is what do you want to code ? Code Warrior survives because it allows you to write for N64/PS2/Palm/etc. It's not successful as a Windows platform and I suspect it's success in Java is the result of aggressive marketing to Universities. We sure don't use it for Java at work, nor was it seriously considered. |
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CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
quote: Yeah, that's probably true - I know KSU uses Java a lot. They converted me Not seriously considered? Their loss, I guess. ------------------ |
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Christian Member Posts: 400 From: Australia Registered: 09-15-2002 |
How do you mean ? I pity anyone trying to write a powerful app or a GUI app in Java, unless they need to ( it needs to be cross platform ), but we use J2EE at work, and I meant we've not considered Code Warrior. We have used a number of Java IDE's, all of which leave Code Warrior in the dust. Most are free, and all are cheaper than CW. |
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CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
Are you sure about GUI stuff? Making a GUI seems simple to me in Java. Heck, with Java Beans, I can use a visual tool just like Visual Basic. As far as power goes - it depends on your Java virtual machine. I recommend upgrading ASAP on a new computer - the default Java machine is really, really, slow compared to the latest virtual machines. I prefer Sun's. Microsoft's history with Java is rather spotty - bugs, slow virtual machines, proprietary extentions, security holes, etc etc ------------------ |
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