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bishop
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SDK Help Needed

Anyone have instructions or a link to a tutorial for how to get the Roku SDK setup in VS 2010? I have used VS for a while, but have never had occasion to add an SDK so this is new ground for me.

Thanks!
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RokuKevin
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Re: SDK Help Needed

There's no integration with Visual Studio supported. However, viewing the .brs files as .vb files gives you pretty good syntax highlighting in VS.

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bishop
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Re: SDK Help Needed

Well, I suppose I should have asked what the best way to use the SDK is then. I can't get it to open, and I thought I saw somewhere that it would run in an IDE. When I double click the executable in the SDK folder I get a brief flash of a command window and then nothing.

I have tried this on my Win 7 (64 bit) and Macbook (Snow Leopard) machines with the same results.

Thanks!
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RokuKevin
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Re: SDK Help Needed

The sdk is distributed as a zip file. You need to unzip it first to view the contents.

Please start by going through this sticky thread:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=36014


--Kevin
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destruk
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Re: SDK Help Needed

I use wordpad - which probably isn't the best way, but it works for me.
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kbenson
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Re: SDK Help Needed

"destruk" wrote:
I use wordpad - which probably isn't the best way, but it works for me.


I hope you at least use a fixed width font...

I use vi/vim, and the vbs highlighting seems to work well enough that it's useful. Personally, I think syntax highlighting is probably the single biggest enhancement that can be made over a plain vanilla text editor for writing source code.
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renojim
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Re: SDK Help Needed

I've been using Notepad++ (free) with vbs syntax highlighting and the function list plugin. Works great!

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TheEndless
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Re: SDK Help Needed

"renojim" wrote:
I've been using Notepad++ (free) with vbs syntax highlighting and the function list plugin. Works great!

-JT

I use Notepad++ with vbs syntax highlighting as well, but I didn't know about the Function List plugin. Nice one!
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RokuChris
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Re: SDK Help Needed

For anyone using a Mac, TextWrangler is my favorite. It does syntax coloring, function listing, and code folding just to name a few. It also balances symbols like () {} [] while you type, so if you hit a ) and it doesn't detect a matching ( it will alert you right away. That feature alone has saved me more than a few times.
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evilmax17
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Re: SDK Help Needed

"RokuChris" wrote:
For anyone using a Mac, TextWrangler is my favorite. It does syntax coloring, function listing, and code folding just to name a few. It also balances symbols like () {} [] while you type, so if you hit a ) and it doesn't detect a matching ( it will alert you right away. That feature alone has saved me more than a few times.

This is what I've been using, with Javascript highlighting.

Could you tell me more about function listing? Not seeing that, think I might have missed an option somewhere.

You wouldn't also happen to have any customized BrightScript plugins for TextWrangler would you?
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