TIDE and Torque2D

#1 Easy install steps

Install the newest version of JEdit. www.jedit.org/
Grab the Tide.jar file and put it in the jars folder in the JEdit dir. prdownloads.sourceforge.net/torqueide/Tide.jar?download
Start up JEdit, get an error. Go to plugins->plugin manager.
Click the install tab. Click on name to sort the list, go down to "project viewer"
install that. Restart JEdit.


I never had an issue with Jlauncher. Is that because you installed the setup from the TIDE website (Jedit with TIDE included) ?

#2 Worked like a charm :) Only thing is that you're looking for 'project viewer' rather than 'project manager'.

#3 That was off the top of my head, i wrote something similar in a post about JEdit a while ago, but thats what i could remember.

#4 Chris: I installed from the full version on the TIDE website, yes.

Are those instructions to get the debugger working? Or some nice, shortcut instructions for getting TIDE working in general?

Thanks!

#5 Tide working in general.
The version of JEdit on the TIDE website is not the current version.
I havnt used TIDE very much because im in love with Brain Edit Pro

#6 I presume Brain Edit doesn't include the stuff for T2D yet? Or does it?

Eh, well, actually I hope to use Python with T2D, but I'm still curious about Brain Edit because it looks nice.

#7 UPDATED: See bottom.

Not to hijack this thread, but this thread is what's caused my question, so here goes ;^)

Has anyone else run across the problem with jEdit only having empty, widget-less dialogs? I have uninstalled all of my Javas, downloaded the latest jre-1_5_0_02-windows-i586-p from java.com, reinstalled, rebooted (many times), etc. and I still only get blank dialog boxes (everything except the splash screen is blank)...

For example

I'm having trouble finding the right things to Google for to look for help (I'm not a Java guy whatsoever...)

Thanks,
Mike


EDIT/UPDATE: Nevermind. It turns-out that Java has some stupid issue with anti-aliasing when it's forced-on (as I had done in my ATI driver panel). Turning that off fixes it. Just FYI for anyone else who might be having issues.

#8 I haven't had a problem with jEdit or Tide. They're running great for me. Only problem is that I can't debug. I can actually even run my game from inside jEdit.. it just gives me a "connection error" when I exit out of it and I have to be careful because sometimes it hides the error message window and that makes it look like it's hanging. (But it isn't.)

Other than that, TIDE living is great. :)

#9 I'm getting the same problems: I hit the play button, it pauses a while, then it gives me: "This error received when connecting to the Torque Debugger: Connection refused: connect".

I've got a TideProject.properties file pointing at T2D.exe, in the same directory at T2D.exe. Syntax highlighting and project searching are working. I do have the debugger buttons, and I do have Project Viewer supporting all my extensions, so my files are right there, nice and visible.

The debugger, however, doesn't seem to work at all. I have no idea how the debugger knows which directory or .properties file to run from. "Recompile Buffer" seems to do absolutely nothing.

And, of course, I get the Jlauncher issue as well, if I launch from jedit.exe instead of jedit.jar. Solution? Launch from jedit.jar.

It took me a good few hours of screwing around with Sun's stupid JDK installs (some omit tools.jar, hooray!) and jEdit settings to get even this far. So far, jEdit isn't impressing me. Should I just edit my scripts in vim, and rely on the in-game script debugger? Are there any big advantages to Visual Studio .NET or BrainEdit? I would sure love the breakpoint functionality of TIDE (does it support edit and reload/continue for scripts?).

#10 Update: it mis-patched main.cs. I'll go in manually and see if I can do a better job. It's launching T2D now that I reverted the main.cs.

I'm still unsuccessful in passing command line args to the debugger: I tried "gameExecutable=T2D.exe -mod firsttutorial", but that has no effect.

#11 I'd love to see if this can work fully. I actually have my game play. If I click the play button, I have no troubles running the game until I try to exit out. Then when I go back, there's a hidden window displaying the connection issue. (First few times, that window was hidden behind the normal TIDE window and I thought the whole darn thing had locked up.)

Unfortunately, since I'm so new at programming in general, I don't have any scintillating suggestions for fixing this problem - all I can do is whine and hope. ^_^

#12 I just use jEdit, set on C# or some such language, and run my game from a shortcut placed on the start bar. It's all I really need.