Regarding Eclipse IDE and Japanese Characters

[Ellye]

Just a heads up, in case anybody else is setting up their game as an Eclipse Project:

By default, Eclipse might go mad due to the Japanese characters in the script comments.

To fix this, go to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace and set Text File Encoding to UTF-8.

Weirdly enough, there seems to be some "fake whitespaces" in one of the included plugin files that also throw Eclipse off regardless of encoding setting (and are even swapped for different symbols in other encodings), but no big deal other than that apparently.

Though I'm not convinced that Eclipse might be the best IDE for this.

[Baethoven]

Originally posted by Ellye:

Though I'm not convinced that Eclipse might be the best IDE for this.

On that note, what IDE's are you guys using for MV? I didn't know it would come without a default editor.

[Ellye]

Originally posted by fracturedpaws:

Originally posted by Ellye:

Though I'm not convinced that Eclipse might be the best IDE for this.

On that note, what IDE's are you guys using for MV? I didn't know it would come without a default editor.

I've just tested a few really quick, and it seemed that NetBeans was the one that actually worked better out of the box: didn't throw out any build error warnings and seems able to auto-complete the RM classes and such.

I'm not a big fan of NetBeans, though, so I'll see if I can get Visual Studio or something else to play nice with this too.

[Zeriab]

I use Visual Studio Code. I know other people use Atom and Sublime Text.

As for Eclipse, I only really like that for Java development.

[Mr Kipling]

I'm using the free community version of visual studio. The intellisense works really well once you add references to the other js files.

[Uncle Brick]

Does anyone know how to setup eclipse for RMMV? I do not know what libraries to add to eclipse to get it to work right? I have the javascript eclipse installed already.

[Zeriab]

@spank_mags:
Are you using using Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio Community 2017?
Both should have their IntelliSense based on the TypeScript information. Do you some comments on how they differ? Would be interesting to know.

@Justcus:
I found Eclipse to be underwhelming for JavaScript development in context of RMMV. I recommend looking for another IDE. That said, if you cannot figure out how to setup the run and debug commands you can always use it simply to edit the JS files and then run the game in a browser. I like both the Chrome and Edge developer tools.