SDK Help Needed

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

–Kevin

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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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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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I use wordpad - which probably isn’t the best way, but it works for me.

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

-JT

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“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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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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“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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“evilmax17” wrote:
Could you tell me more about function listing, and symbol balancing? Not seeing either of these, think I might have missed an option somewhere.

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

  • I set the syntax coloring to VBScript and it works pretty well

  • The function list is at the top of the editor window. To turn it on go to View->Show Navigation Bar

  • Balance while typing is in the “Editor Defaults” section of the preferences

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Thanks for the tips guys! I was under the misperception that the sdk would plug into an IDE. I’ll give it a whirl with Notepad++ on my PC and TextWrangler on my Mac to see which I like best.

Thanks!

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I just started myself and I have been using Textpad. http://www.textpad.com, available for free.

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i just installed notepad++ , how do i enable vbs syntax highlighting?

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Go to Settings-Style Configurator. Then under Language, go down to VB/VBS and add brs as a User ext. Someone posted a full style for BrightScript and Notepad++, so you might want to search for that.

-JT

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is this what you were talking about?

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=36912&p=240108&hilit=brightscript+style#p240108

i tried this but notepad++ crashes every time i try to select it.

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That’s what I was talking about, but I don’t know much about it. I’ve been meaning to try it, but so far I’ve just been sticking with the VB/VBS style.

-JT

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I use Jedit on the mac with the brightscript syntax highlighter viewtopic.php?f=34&t=33897&p=216174&hilit=jedit#p216165 that Malloys created for me, it is more than adequate to get the job done.

  • Joel