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Hi all, I've studied a number of languages within the Visual Studio environment on Windows ... would dearly love to do the same in a linux environment (not necessarily portable ...
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    Hi all,

    I've studied a number of languages within the Visual Studio environment on Windows ... would dearly love to do the same in a linux environment (not necessarily portable to windows but that would be good).

    Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be great.

    TIA

    Prime
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    2 great IDEs are Eclipse and Netbeans. There are others as well.
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    Thanks for the prompt replies ...

    Anything in particular that I should look out for?

    I have downloaded and installed the eclipse packages so far ... so good.

    I guess I need to get my head around the different configurations etc ...

    Netbeans is next!

    Cheers
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    You should install the right plug-in for the language you want. Eclipse can do almost() everything with the right plug-in.
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    Ok ... downloaded Netbeans ... packages installed without incident.

    Problem I have now is that when I first started NetBeans it came up with a Licence Agreement window that was blank ... seems that it didn't render properly ...

    I clicked a few times within that window and it seemed to start the IDE with the usual splash screen ... yipee thinks me.

    When it is finished loading I get a blank window again ...

    I notice when I move the mouse within the window that the mouse pointer changes from the arrow to the pointing finger (for clicking) in several different places. Again, it seems that the screen hasn't rendered properly.

    Now, given that I am literally flying blind, how do I now get the IDE to show me all its magic?

    This is very frustrating.

    Cheers
    Last edited by Prime; 09-28-2008 at 09:55 AM. Reason: spelling :(
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    Your IDE wont realy determine what is portable to windows and what isn't. The IDE just helps you more easily be able to write your code. There are many people who code applications for windows, but do so on macs or linux.

    My opinion, is that eclipse is the best IDE, even though I prefer using plain old vi with makefiles.
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    Problem Fixed.

    The issue was some of the advanced desktop effects that were loaded.

    Netbeans is also now up and running.

    Thanks all.
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