Getting started with Descent

Linker · Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 29 Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan

Hello.

This IDE seems great, but where are all the docs?

For example, I couldn't get syntax coloring to work, so all I have at the moment is a fancy text editor Embarassed

Best regards,
Linker

jcc7 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 657 Location: Muskogee, OK, USA

fraserofthenight · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Seattle, WA

If you can't get syntax coloring to work on a D file, I'm assuming the plugin probably isn't installed at all. Are you able to create a new D project?

The docs are, like docs for most open-source projects, somewhere between limited and nonexistent, so those wiki links are about the best there is. However, Descent is a port of JDT, so in many cases, the JDT docs will suffice.

Linker · Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 29 Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan

It turned out I have configured Eclipse to use the wrong (1.4) java runtime (I have 2 installed on my machine). Embarassed

In java 1.4, Descent installs correctly, but doesn't work at all. Confused

Problem solved, thanks to everyone for their response! Very Happy

fraserofthenight · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Seattle, WA

Thanks for the info, I'll add it when I get around to making docs

asterite · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject:

It's already in the docs:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/wiki/Installing

Very Important: you will need Java 1.5 or greater.