I need to review the iphone application code written by my colleague, but unfortunately I have only a windows PC at present.
It would be nice if some one suggest a tool like 'source insight' which can be used to navigate through the obj-c code in a windows environment.
Regards,
Dhanesh
here is the way to do what you want
Installing and using GNUstep and Objective-C on Windows
also for cross platform
http://www.cocotron.org/Info/
try this it is awesome.
Try Notepad++, it seems to recognize Objective-C syntax.
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I want to use Eclipse to develop code I will be uploading to my Atmega 2560 microcontroller. I could easily use the Arduino IDE to do this, but in my opinion, developing on Eclipse is a whole lot easier.
So, I followed this guide.
I get to the step where I have to add a programmer, but when I click on the Add button, nothing happens.
Does anyone have an idea as to what might be the problem?
The issue here is that 6.0.x series of avrdude uses a different configuration file which the avr-eclipse plugin is not able to parse. There is a ticket filed for this in the bug tracker in SourceForge.
A temporary solution would be to downgrade to avrdude 5.11.x.
Cheers.
I tried to use Eclipse for Arduino development and I followed this tutorial too but it didn't work for me. Also I couldn't find normal description of how I have to use it. From the other side so called Arduino IDE in my opinion isn't IDE it's very primitive buggy editor(looks like amateur product).
To upload my program to Atmega controller I decided to use avrdude direct from the console, where I specify programmer type and hex file that I want to upload. In this case I write program in c and use avrgcc toolchain for compiling and linking. However the question about IDE is still opened for me(the main problem for me that I don't know how to debug my code without IDE).
Also exist Atmel IDE AVrStudio. I didn'y try to use it, my I will mention it like a variant that you can try if you want.
Getting AVRDude (used by the AVR-ecplipse plugin) running on Windows with USB connected AVR programmers can be a real pain, often involving very specific driver uninstall/install sequences, such as those described at the bottom of this forum topic. I used to use Eclipse for my AVR programming, but have since moved to the new iteration of Atmel Studio. Version 6 is now available, and its relatively straight forward to get everything working well. There are a few things odd about it, but it has improved a lot since AS4.
Is there any IDE which allow to produce .fmx file extension, Actually i am developing filemaker plugin with .fmx extension so that i can simply put it in "Extension" folder in where tha all plugin is resided used by filemaker pro application software and start using, when i tried to search extension .fmx in visual basic 2008 then it didn't show any result , still i am searching over internet, but i am not able to find. please sugest me some alternative, or some thing related
Thanks,
Nishant
FileMaker plug-ins are regular Win32 DLLs. The .fmx extension is just a custom extension. I'm not sure you can produce such a DLL with Visual Basic or C# (but I'm not an expert in these); you might have to use Visual C++.
Check out http://www.dotnet2fm.com/ They provide a tool to write filemaker plugin in c#
I want to be able to browse through the source code of an iPhone application in windows. I do not want to compile and run the code, just need to have some kind of tool that understands the Objective-C code and iPhone application source structure. Something that view the source code as a whole (project-based) and ideally can link different classes and methods. Something more than just a plain editor with code styling and something less than a full feature IDE. Do you suggest any tools?
Most editors will support Objective-C syntax highlighting. Personally I use VIM or NotePad++. I would recommend NotePad++ for ease of use. But as far as I know there is no 'IDE' for Objective-C for Windows.
I use jEdit if I need to see the source code in Windows. Pretty much handles all the structure and syntax highlighting of objective C.
EDIT: Its an editor. Not a IDE. But with your needs of just viewing code, I guess it must suffice.
If you want a bit more than just syntax highlighting, GNUStep has an IDE called PRoject Center. GNUStep can run on Windows, so allegedly Project Center will too.
Emacs has good syntax and indentation support for Objective-C, for example it can indent the method calls the way Xcode does (based on ':') and there's a Windows version of it available here.
Though it's not an IDE, most of the time I use it for Obj-C/GNUstep without much problems.
If you use something like ctags to tag your source code you could use any editor with support for ctags.
It looks like ctags does not support Objective-C directly, but it is fairly easy to add a new language configuration to ctags.
I have a bunch of related Perl scripts that I would like to put together in one convenient place. So I was thinking of building a GUI and incorporating the scripts. I'm using Strawberry Perl on Windows XP and have just installed Tk from cpan about fifteen minutes ago. Before I go for it, I want some sound advice either for or against it.
My other option is to translate the Perl scripts into VB and use Visual Studio 2008, but that might be too much hassle for an outcome that might end up all the same had I just stuck with Perl & Tk.
I haven't looked yet, but maybe there is a module for Visual Studio that would allow me to invoke Perl scripts?
The main requirements are:
It must be able to communicate with MySQL
It must be able to fetch & parse XML files from the internet
It must be transportable, scalable, and sustainable
What direction would you take?
I've built Perl/Tk apps on Windows before and found it just fine, including using PAR to package everything up for distribution to others. It was nice being able to do most of my development on a proper Linux system and have things just magically work on Windows :) The only gotcha I encountered is that Tk doesn't play well with ithreads.
I personally would recommend wxPerl over Tk. It has native looking widgets, at least in my view leads to cleaner code and you can use wxGlade as a GUI designer.
If you haven't programmed with Perl/Tk I would think that Tkx (developed by Activestate) would be a better option. Tkx is a thin layer over Tcl/Tk, which gives it access to the new themed widgets in Tcl/Tk so your application would look better.
Perl/Tk has a lot more documentation around, but the module itself does not seem to be developed anymore. The documentation for Tkx is very sparse but by following the Tkx tutorial files on CPAN, it should be easy to get started.
WxWidgets (available for Perl via wxPerl) is an excellent graphical toolkit, but wxPerl only implements a subset of the available widgets.
PAR is convenient but if you go with Perl/Tk, the result will not run natively on OS X. (Users will need to run X11 first, which is problematic, especially with more recent version of OS X). If you go with Tkx, you can get native application on Mac OSX. Also, ActiveStates's PDK gives you a simple way to package everything to deploy to Windows, Linux, and OS X.
For reference, see the the software (AntConc and AntWordProfiler) at the following site http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html, where AntConc was developed using Perl/Tk and AntWordProfiler was developed using Tkx.
The Process class allows to start new processes from a C# (WPF/Winforms) frontend.
I guess that way you can keep your Perl scripts and use the nice Visual Studio GUI builder.
i'm using windows xp what would be a good c compiler?
i want to learn c so that i can better understand the objective-c language for the iphone.
i have a great background in php so hopefully something will make sense
ps:
what sections should i put more focus on when learning c in getting prepared for objective-c?
thanks
Duplicate:
c compiler for windows
C/C++ Compiler for windows
Which C Compiler do you recommend for windows
GCC is a free, open source, high quality, compiler. You can get it with cygwin.
Microsoft makes a C compiler that comes with Visual Studio, which is Microsoft's integrated development environment. You can download the "Express" edition of Visual C++ to give it a try.
Also, Intel makes a good compiler.
The iphone uses the gcc compiler. This is available for windows using MinGW/MSYS or other compatibility packages.
Apple has Objective-C tutorials which assume very little C experience; I'd be tempted to just dive in. If you get stuck, then get K&R. (I don't know if php has types and pointers, otherwise you'll get stuck straight away)
Visual C++ express is free, has a really nice IDE and compiles C code.
I'd use gcc by downloading cygwin.
Gcc is the way, you can install mingw which is a native windows port.
I also recommend gcc, but don't get too used to GNU extensions such as asprintf() if you want to write portable code. On some systems, strdup() is lacking, amongst many others. The compiler itself won't spoil you, but glibc will.
On the one hand you have POSIX, on the other hand you have ISO/c89/c99, then you have gcc.
I highly recommend gcc, with the above warnings in mind while you continue to explore other compilers. For instance, it can be fun to code around the limits of Lestes if you enjoy dabbling in C++.
In any event, gcc is very powerful, boasts superior optimizations and can be so -pedantic that you think its out to get you. But, don't forget about portable code .. or where/if portability kludges are actually appropriate.
Cygwin is also highly recommended, as DasBoot posted.
You could have a look at this free e-book Programming in C in 7 days as a starter where they use Dev-CPP for windows
Note
It includes only the first 7 lessons of the more complete e-book “Quickly
Learn Programming in C”
Normally I would recommend Pelles C for programming C in windows. It is a good user friendly programming environment that has the best c99 compliance that i've seen... However, here I'm going to tell you that you should use gcc right off but not on windows. Use Linux (maybe Ubuntu?).
The reason I say to use gcc on Linux is because you want to develop for the iphone. I would suggest getting comfortable with the tools you are likely to use. I don't imagine you using the official iphone sdk (you'd need a Mac for that) so I think you'll be using the free tool chain. It does not compile on windows so switch to a supported platform and get comfortable with the tools.
I personally recommend MinGW. You can download it off SourceForge. It even works on a 64 bit configuration. I don't think it supports objective C. However, I found it useful while running C code on windows.
I don't have any idea about objective C and what parts of C you need to focus on while learning so as to make the transition easy. I'll leave that to someone with more experience.
gcc included in cygwin is a perfect first choice if you want to learn C on your Window XP platform. cygwin/gcc includes a basic Objective-C environment.
Anyway if you want to target iPhone, the best move would be to change to a Mac platform (which can natively run XP for smoothing the switch) in order to get Xcode, the Mac and iPhone development environment. You will also be able to learn CocoaTouch, the iPhone OS.
In parallel, you can register to the iPhone Dev Center for accessing all resources for learning iPhone programming.
If you're after a compiler that can compile both C and Objective-C, a GCC port to Windows is probably your best bet.
When learning C, concentrate on pointers, arrays, strings and memory management - those are the things that will trip you up coming from a managed environment of any kind.
The best thing about gcc is that it has a lot of features and supports the latest language standard. But for fast compilation and a nice programming environment you can't beat Lcc-Win32.
GCC is the cheapest compiler, Intel the fastest, MSVC the most featured.