Just received the news that next release of RefactorIt (1.2.2) will support refactorings under version control with CVS and VSS.
Integrates well with NetBeans, BTW…
just got Eclipse set up at work with the VSS plug in… it seems to work ok for the most part. I haven’t tested the refactoring yet to see if it is smart, but from looking at the readme it seems that eclipse does have hooks to the source control system for moves and renames… so it just may work well.
One irritating thing though is that it doesn’t automatically ask to check out the file if you attempt to edit it. Does anyone happen to know if Eclipse can be configured to do so?
BTW. Does RefactorIt have a free version? (not a time limited trial)
They have a FREE license for OpenSource projects. And decent prices for the rest, I think.
[quote]NetBeans claims to have support but I didn’t see a menu item for it and couldn’t find a module to support VSS.
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I happened across VSS support in the NetBeans Options menu. It can be found at: Options > System > Modules > Version Control > VSS
Hmm, just been tinkering with Eclipse over the last hour or so, and i’m still very undecided. Debugger looks very nice, as does the seperate ‘perspectives’ and the views can be nicely rearranged to say the least.
However, i can’t for the life of me figure out how to do (or how to enable) simple things >:( Where on earth is the compiler output for a start? And is there an option to let me select an entire line by clicking on the line number/margin? I’ve searched the help files and config in vain… If anyone can point out where i’m going awry i’d appreciate it.
And it doesnt seem to have hotkeys for anything useful, or let me edit the toolbar. sigh looks like unless i’m very much mistaken i’ll be going back to JCreator, where its nice and streamlined in such areas.
[Quote]Where on earth is the compiler output for a start?
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Depends on the perspective. You’re looking for the Tasks view though.
[Quote]And is there an option to let me select an entire line by clicking on the line number/margin? I’ve searched the help files and config in vain… If anyone can point out where i’m going awry i’d appreciate it.
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Pretty sure you can do this, not sure how though.
[Quote]And it doesnt seem to have hotkeys for anything useful, or let me edit the toolbar.
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Try right-clicking on the toolbar
Here’s the perspective i put together for most of my work: http://www.stardart.net/Images/workshop.png
Odd, i’m sure i had the tasks window open when i did a build at some point, and yet i didnt see anything.
And right clicking didn’t give me any useful options at all. Its almost as if getting hotkeys for compile/run and a corresponding button is being made as difficult as possible… :o
Maybe you didn’t have any compiler output?
Eclipse uses incremental compiling, and therefore when and what you get is a bit different than with JCreator. This can be customized in your Java preferences.
When you right-click on the toolbar, you should get an option to “Customize Perspective” which will allow you to customize it.
As far as hotkeys, there is a help topic called “Keyboard shortcuts for the Workbench, Java development tools, and the debugger” in the workbench user guide. You can get to this by searching help for “Key.”
For those that can’t get enough of NetBeans versus IDEA: http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=nbusers&by=thread&from=15814&JServSessionIdservlets=q4fkxlfkx2
I recently was using a plug-in from another vendor (beta program, so I can’t mention them here) and they did have support for checking out the file when you began editing a file. So it is possible…but I believe the SCM vendor has to implement this feature in their plug in.