Web and WebWorks Development

[chibineku]

I am brand new to BlackBerry development but pretty decent with web design/scripting, so I was excited to read about widget creation.  I have DLed eclipse and the 8900 simulator, but am having trouble following the Widget Tutorial.

I am meant to create new dynamic web project, but the option doesn't appear anywhere in the New menu.  When I tried to add the appropriate site to the software updater in Eclipse, it spat out a ream of dependency errors which I don't know how to fix.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Nallo]

I assume, you downloaded the latest...

I did not create a dynamic web project, but a Blackberry Widget Project .

If it is not in the "new" menu, goto "file->new->project...", you should be able to choose it there:

If that is not it, you should either reinstall eclipse or deinstall every update site, not connected to eclipse(galileo), or tell us, which error messages, you get.

regards,

Nallo

[chibineku]

Hi Nallo,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Edit: I just realised that there isn't any need to use Eclipse at all - I'll just use ConTEXT to create the documents I need, now that I know the syntax for config.xml.  D'uh!

I did reinstall Eclipse and I followed a tutorial and had everything working, but now, again, I cannot find the 'new->web->dynamic web project' option, nor can I find it in 'new->project'.  Very strange, and now I can't find the tutorial I was following.

A strange thing is that I initially DLed Eclipse having followed a link on the Phonegap site, and it was the Ganymede version.  I reinstalled it and got the Galileo version.  When I open it now, it is back to Ganymede.   I have no idea what the difference is - does it come down to plug-ins, etc? 

I have tried detaching all update sites, closing and restarting Eclipse, but it's still Ganymede and it still doesn't have a 'new->other->web' path.  Sure is a complicated piece of software...

I have one working dynamic web project, so I can just reuse it, I guess.

A secondary problem I'm having is with the widget packager.  The tutorial I followed told me to create a folder 'BlackBerry Widget Packager/web' and to put the .zip archive of resources into it, and to use the command line command 'bbwp.exe web/whatever.zip', but the packager fails to create my widget unless I put the archive in the same directory as bbwp.exe.  This means when it outputs my files, they go to 'BlackBerry Widget Packager/bin/StandardInstall' and 'BlackBerry Widget Packager/bin/OTAInstall', and the executable .jar and .rapc files either end up in a temp folder under users/user or just don't seem to exist at all.  It's a slight nuisance having to round my files up in this way every time I want to test something.  Any thoughts?

[Nallo]

Hi,

I have to admin that I am not that good with eclipse (yet), so I don't know the difference between all those different eclipse's .

I downloaded the latest version of the Eclipse ID for JavaEE Developers and then installed the widget SDK as update-site.

Using this, I don't need the widget packager as I have the option to "Build as BlackBerry Widget".

So I am sorry, I cannot help you with that.

Looking around in the forum, there are not many using Eclipse, are there?

Regards,

Nallo

P.S: I remember the tutorial, you are talking about and I don't think it is exact...

[chibineku]

Hi again,

Yeah, eclipse doesn't seem to do much for the widget creator and it is pretty hefty to use as a text editor.  I'm happier with ConTEXT, which I am used to and like.

As you say, though, the only difference is that it packages your widgets for you.  It turns out that I don't even need the .jar and .rapc to run my widgets (again, I have no idea what all the files that the packager churns out do), so I only need to copy files from one of the ~Install folders to the other - not the biggest hassle in the world

[Nallo]

Hi,

Happy, it works for you.

Yes, you are right with the plugin as editor, but I additionally installed the Web-Development Plugin for Aptana Studio and use it as editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript - which works pretty well, when developing widgets. Don't know about ConTEXT, though. It may be the better choice

good luck,

Nallo