It is a bit painful and difficult for a begineer in cocos2d-x to get the actual syntax of the code.
What I am saying is that, Cocos2d-x in mac is having Xcode IDE and it supports predicting the code with suggestions.
Whereas, it is quite difficult for developers using Eclipse IDE
we do not get code prediction, so we have to search through a lot and it’s a painful task
some or the other code always gets missed.
How can we get the code prediction in Eclipse IDE also… ??
Is it already there or is it going to come soon. ??
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Cocos2dx contains enough example to get you started.Explore this Website.
As far as IDE’s are concerned,i was also once dependant on them. But let me tell you its a bad thing for a programmer.
Also on Windows you have MS Visual Studio. Its as good as Xcode on Mac (from what i heard).
Yes i do know that depending on them is bad for a programmer.
I’m not going to depend on them my whole life. ha ha…
Just during the learning process.
because it gives overall idea of how many types are there and what code can be used at what place, stuff like that.
Just need it for that only.
Yes, visual studio is there, but i hardly find anyone using it.
Most of the video tutorials are made using Xcode and hardly any video tutorial i’ve seen having Eclipse, but VS none…
Also, does Visual studio support the code recommendation as Xcode does… ??
When we write the framework and test cases for cocos2d-x, Mac users will use Xcode and debug on iOS firstly, Windows users will use Visual Studio and debug on windows firstly, then move to eclipse and test on android. Eclipse is not friendly to C++ programmers.
If you’re using Lua or Javascript instead of C++, you can try our Cocos Code IDE, which supports Cocos2d-x Lua & JavaScript API auto-complete, debugging and compilation.
You should take advantage of the cross-platform nature of cocos2d-x : develop and debug all the c++ part of it on Visual Studio, testing on Win32 or WP8 (or if you are on Mac, with Xcode, testing on Mac OS or iOS)
When it’s done, do the Android specific parts on Eclipse (mostly Java, and a bit of JNI). Android environments (be it Eclipse, Android Studio or command line ndk-gdb) are not friendly to C++, because C++ is an afterthought on Android.
@pabitrapadhy If you want to debug c++ on android, AFAIK, there’re some products:
ARM DS-5 http://ds.arm.com/, use it’s free community version. Also I’m negotiate with ARM to see if they can license Cocos Code IDE to redistribute DS-5 for c++ debugging
