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From: Albert Retey on 8 Mar 2010 06:10 Hi, > > To pursue the inquiry a bit further, Workbench seems to be called an > "environment" -- a term that may have varied meanings. > > Would it also be properly called an "app"? Eclipse is a regular "application" and the application type is IDE, that is "Integrated Development Environment", a class of applications that traditionally integrate stuff like compilers, build tools, debuggers, version control and some more in one application. The Wolfram Workbench is a plugin for eclipse which adds support for the programming language Mathematica to eclipse, that is an editor that knows Mathematica syntax, a debugger, a profiler and some other tools that help with standard tasks that a Mathematica programmer will be faced when writing a Mathematica package or application. If you are interested, learn more about eclipse at www.eclipse.org > As an operational question, if you Open Workbench on a Mac, does > "Workbench" appear just the right of the Apple Menu in the menu bar? I don't have a Mac handy, and never used neither Wolfram Workbench nor Eclipse on a Mac, so I simply don't know, I'm also not sure which menu bar you are referring to... hth, albert
From: Albert Retey on 8 Mar 2010 06:11 Hi, >> If you are only writing pure mathematica package files, the added value >> of the workbench is IMHO limited, it really can help you to save a lot >> of work only if you either plan to provide documentation that you want >> to integrate into the Documentation Center ...... > > I have figured out and documented an easy way to integrate documentation > into the DC without the use of the workbench. See my website for details. I know that and also the documentation of David Reiss, which adds some other tricks to the ones in your documentation. Both are appreciated and very helpful and good enough to integrate documentation into the Documentation Center. But they both assume rather good familiarity with Mathematica (which the workbench actually does, too) and there are some additional benefits that only the workbench/documentation tools provide: e.g. the stylesheets for documentation source notebooks, the toolbars to edit documentation notebooks and the automatic links that the workbench inserts when "building" the documentation. So if you are using the workbench anyway, the tools it provides for creating documentation are a big help, on the other hand it is not absolutely necessary to use the workbench to get your documentation done, thanks to your and the other Davids documentations, which actually one have only the one drawback of being not "official" and thus might need adaption with a future version... regards, albert hth, albert
From: George Woodrow III on 8 Mar 2010 06:18 On Mar 7, 2010, at 4:01 AM, AES wrote: > As an operational question, if you Open Workbench on a Mac, does > "Workbench" appear just the right of the Apple Menu in the menu bar? > Yes, on OS X, Workbench is an app, just like any other. In earlier versions (and some betas of version 2), yu would get two icons in the dock, which indicated that there were actually two processes. The activity monitor currently shows just one process, so that issue has been fixed (probably related to the cross platform nature of Eclipse -- I get this behavior with apps using Wine.) It is shown as a 32 bit Intel (only) application. george > In article <hmqiun$sg6$1(a)smc.vnet.net>, > Albert Retey <awnl(a)gmx-topmail.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>>> I just realized that there is an extra setting for the help system, in >>>> Preferences -> Help -> "Open Help Contents" you can choose to open help in >>>> an >>>> external browser. >>> >>> Are you talking about something in Mathematica Preferences here, or in >>> the Mac OS Help System or some other OS? >> >> this thread is named Transistion to Wolfram Workbench, so I thought it >> was clear we are talking about Wolfram Workbench and of course it is the >> preferences of the workbench that I was talking about... >> >> hth, > > Yes, it does, thanks. > > To pursue the inquiry a bit further, Workbench seems to be called an > "environment" -- a term that may have varied meanings. > > Would it also be properly called an "app"? > > As an operational question, if you Open Workbench on a Mac, does > "Workbench" appear just the right of the Apple Menu in the menu bar? >
From: Chuck on 11 Mar 2010 07:24 I am trying to simply open a test project using the wizard, as illustrated in the video linked in the Welcome section. I choose open New Project. The wizard pops up. I choose Basic Project in the Mathematica list. The wizard freezes. Nothing else happens. I have also cannot open an existing package and get a long list of error messages, similar to those submitted earlier by another poster to this thread. I am running this on Linux 9.10 and Workbench 2.0. Chuck
From: Adam Berry on 12 Mar 2010 07:07
On 3/11/10 6:21 AM, Chuck wrote: > I am trying to simply open a test project using the wizard, as > illustrated in the video linked in the Welcome section. > > I choose open New Project. The wizard pops up. I choose Basic > Project in the Mathematica list. > > The wizard freezes. Nothing else happens. > > I have also cannot open an existing package and get a long list of > error messages, similar to those submitted earlier by another poster > to this thread. > > I am running this on Linux 9.10 and Workbench 2.0. > > Chuck > > > The issue with the wizard is likely linked to a problem between Eclipse/SWT and the version of GTK used in Ubuntu 9.10, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=299896 for details and a workaround. In Workbench 2.0, code files must exist inside a project for them to be opened with Mathematica code editor, so first create a project, copy the files into it, and then you can start working with it. Adam Berry Wolfram Workbench Development Team |