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Non-Visual C++ IDE?

by Mitovo · in Torque Game Engine · 04/03/2004 (5:58 pm) · 21 replies

Hello..

Quick question..

Can anyone recommend an IDE to use that isn't Visual C++ or any of that line? I don't have the money to buy a full development suite just to compile some source-code or apply a patch.

Is there any anyone would recommend that isn't too difficult to set up?

Thanks!
Mike
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Torque Owner Jarrod Roberson
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04/05/2004 (7:29 pm)
As Nicolas pointed out, and I think you understand now, it is not as simple as you want it to be.
GG forums are not the best place to ask general software development questions.

It never will be. You are going to have to learn and understand the basic fundemental general knowledge issues if you want to succeed in software development on your own. And don't think for a second that game development is anything other than really complicated software development.

Once you get the understanding of "you don't know what you don't know" and you really are going to have to do some in depth research on some really boring, obfuscated, illogical crap ( and the open source stuff is not even good examples of good software development practices as a general rule ) you might make more progress. You want to go to mars before you know the basic principles of physics and want step by step instructinos on flying the space ship without haviing to understand how any of it works.

As Nicolas stated, you got a meal, you still don't know how to fish. Next time, and there are lots more non-standard things that you will want to apply to the C++ code base, you will be back asking for step by step hand holding. Just wait until you find out that the datablocks don't really work like you think they do/should ;-)

All of this is difficult when you don't understand it, nothing is going to make it any simpler than having a good solid understanding of the basics. It does not get any more ground floor basic 101 than makefile. A friend of mine says "hanging by your thumbs is easy once you get used to it", you are going to have to hang by your thumbs for a while, just like everyone else ;-)

Programmers get artists on their teams, you need a programmer on yours.

But that said, the more multi-faceted you are the more likely you are going to be able to attract team members because you can at least "talk" their language and earn their respect.

One way to get more Torque specifc help is to format questions like this.

Here is what I want to do, and maybe why so if you are going about it we know what the desired end result is.
Here is what I tried and did not work.
then ask What am I doing wrong, what is the best way to achieve what you want as an end result.

That will get more specific answers than, starting out, "i don't want to ..."

Good luck . . .
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