What programming softwares are used to develop jEdit ?
Submitted by on Saturday, 1 May, 2004 - 12:27
Hello,
I discovered jEdit a few days and wonder what are the programming softwares used to design and develop it : IDEs, tools, WYSIWYG dialog editors (if any)...
Once upon a time...
In 1998 I bought a book to learn Java as we had an applet development class at the university. I got [i]Teach yourself Java 1.2 in 21 days[/i] by Laura Lemay and Rogers Cadenhead. As I had a C/C++ background, once the class was over, I gave up on learning Java and went back to my good old Microsoft Visual Studio, MFC (Microsoft/C++ GUI programming libraries like AWT/Swing). A few days ago I asked on Usenet if someone knew a good editor to replace my good-old but buggy NoteTab Light (improved Notepad, text editor). Someone adviced me to try jEdit.
At first I thought that jEdit was just an other boring programming editor. But I quickly checked out the main website and community... It really reminded me of HTML-Kit, one of my favourite web design & development tool. Plugins, manuals, forums, you name it. To say the least, I'm impressed. I know a few other Java softwares but none of them is as well polished, designed, extensible and powerful as jEdit. The plugin manager is terrific as it allows you to extend jEdit from the editor itself, read the descriptions, select the one you want to download and install... Done in a few minutes. I got the BufferTabs plugin and even if jEdit doesn't seem to remember that the plugin was checked (I have to check it each time I launch jEdit), it works like a charm. I was also able to switch from one look & feel to the other, Windows look & feel is just as good as the MFC one. Last but not least I didn't even know that Java has its own Microsoft HTMLHelp (chm).
So as a poor lonesome Microsoft Visual Studio/MFC user and developer, I wonder what are the softwares used to design and develop jEdit. What are the IDEs that can be compared to Microsoft Visual Studio ? A tool that would allow me to design dialogs using WYSIWYG and powerful tools, debugger, profiler, all jEdit features... and more ? I know jEdit has some good plugins to debug and stuff but I don't think I can design dialogs, menus, software interfaces, using jEdit. Am I right ?
I only know a few IDEs and can't really try them all. I know Eclipse but for what I know, there's no dialog editor.
End of story, bye bye (Shrek ^^).
Last but not least, do you know of any good books to learn jEdit-like software design and development ? I found hundreds of books about Java development but I can't believe I have to read them all to develop a single software. I got 2 MFC books to learn MFC and Windows software development, it was far sufficient.
Thanks for your time and help,
JM
I discovered jEdit a few days and wonder what are the programming softwares used to design and develop it : IDEs, tools, WYSIWYG dialog editors (if any)...
Once upon a time...
In 1998 I bought a book to learn Java as we had an applet development class at the university. I got [i]Teach yourself Java 1.2 in 21 days[/i] by Laura Lemay and Rogers Cadenhead. As I had a C/C++ background, once the class was over, I gave up on learning Java and went back to my good old Microsoft Visual Studio, MFC (Microsoft/C++ GUI programming libraries like AWT/Swing). A few days ago I asked on Usenet if someone knew a good editor to replace my good-old but buggy NoteTab Light (improved Notepad, text editor). Someone adviced me to try jEdit.
At first I thought that jEdit was just an other boring programming editor. But I quickly checked out the main website and community... It really reminded me of HTML-Kit, one of my favourite web design & development tool. Plugins, manuals, forums, you name it. To say the least, I'm impressed. I know a few other Java softwares but none of them is as well polished, designed, extensible and powerful as jEdit. The plugin manager is terrific as it allows you to extend jEdit from the editor itself, read the descriptions, select the one you want to download and install... Done in a few minutes. I got the BufferTabs plugin and even if jEdit doesn't seem to remember that the plugin was checked (I have to check it each time I launch jEdit), it works like a charm. I was also able to switch from one look & feel to the other, Windows look & feel is just as good as the MFC one. Last but not least I didn't even know that Java has its own Microsoft HTMLHelp (chm).
So as a poor lonesome Microsoft Visual Studio/MFC user and developer, I wonder what are the softwares used to design and develop jEdit. What are the IDEs that can be compared to Microsoft Visual Studio ? A tool that would allow me to design dialogs using WYSIWYG and powerful tools, debugger, profiler, all jEdit features... and more ? I know jEdit has some good plugins to debug and stuff but I don't think I can design dialogs, menus, software interfaces, using jEdit. Am I right ?
I only know a few IDEs and can't really try them all. I know Eclipse but for what I know, there's no dialog editor.
End of story, bye bye (Shrek ^^).
Last but not least, do you know of any good books to learn jEdit-like software design and development ? I found hundreds of books about Java development but I can't believe I have to read them all to develop a single software. I got 2 MFC books to learn MFC and Windows software development, it was far sufficient.
Thanks for your time and help,
JM
