Eclipse help

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hello. I recently switched from Netbeans to Eclipse after Netbeans started memory leaking like there was no tomorrow. I’ve found most of the functionality I used in Netbeans in Eclipse, but there are still a few things I don’t know how to do yet:

  • Is there a profiler for Eclipse? There was a built-in one in Netbeans. It was insanely inaccurate and weird, but it was better than nothing.
  • Can I change the stupid hotkeys? Having F11 for debug and Ctrl-F11 for run seems completely backwards to me.
  • Can I associate file types inside Eclipse? I usually write my shaders inside my IDE (in the basic text editor), but it keeps opening it with Notepad if I just double-click it.
  • Concerning shaders again, is there a GLSL plugin for Eclipse? Are there any good sites/sources for plugins?
  • I’m going crazy on how the run settings work. I have around 30 very small LWJGL test programs, and when I run them for the first time in Eclipse it creates a new run configuration that doesn’t have the natives and memory settings specified, so I have to manually add them for every program. If it was just once, then it wouldn’t have been a problem, but if I update LWJGL or something I’ll have to change them all manually. Can I set all the programs inside a project to use the same run configuration, or at least the same VM commands?

Thanks!

#2

Yes, have a read of this tutorial.

Eclipse doesn’t come with a built in profiler atm, but you can use jvisualvm which is pretty similar to the netbeans one, it comes with the jdk and can be found in the jdk/bin folder.

#3

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> File Associations

#4

Google says this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/glshaders/

Haven’t tried it myself, probably will give it a whirl soon though.

#5

Awesome! Thanks for the responses! Will try everything out soon, but right now, I gotta BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO BENKYO!!!

EDIT: I’m too curious for my own good… Kappa, the LWJGL setup tutorial only describes how to set up the LWJGL natives path. I want to specify some VM-commands (-server, some memory and GC stuff) too… T__T

#6

Instead of clicking Run, click Run Configurations, you’ll see a list of applications on the left, just duplicate one with the settings and change the name of the main class to the one you want to run.

#7

Manually for 30 files…? -_-

#8

he has a point, its annoying alright, to copy it everytime

I also thought F11 - debug was completely backwards, but I only use debug run - because then you can just change code on the fly, and it works
and if not, just dont, there is no downside
obviously changed the debug view to look nicer

#9

Plain run is marginally faster, and it suspends the application on crash instead of terminating it.

#10

What OS? On Windows you can put the natives in the project root. Otherwise add them to your path.

#11

That’s one thing I like about IDEA: template settings. You set the vm args you want once, and everything you run inherits them. Once those are set, the keystroke (shift-alt-f10, which I always rebind) is like some kind of Do What I Mean button. I always grind my teeth a little going back to Eclipse run configurations (which I do because scala support is better in eclipse)