Installing the Fantom Netbeans IDE
You can either install as a plugin to an existing Netbeans installation, or standalone.
Standalone Install
Make sure you have Java 6 or newer installed to be able to run the IDE.
- For Linux/Unix/Windows, download:
http://www.colar.net/fantomide/ - For OSX:
http://www.colar.net/fantomide/ Extract at a location of your choice, and then run bin/fantomide (bin/fantomide.exe on windows).
Once the IDE is up go to tools/options/miscellaneous/fantom options and set the path to your fantom install (fantom home).
You can now open existing projects (folders with a build.fan in them) and add fan files & edit/run them.
See the demo to get started.
Report issues on the help page.
Install as a plugin to an existing Netbeans Installation
You need at least Netbeans 6.8 (7.0 recommanded)
- Open Netbeans
- Go to tools / plugins
- Go to settings tab (List of update centers), click "Add"
- Add -> Name: Fantom
Url for nb 7.0 - RECOMMENDED: http://www.colar.net/fantomide/plugin/7.0/updates.xml
Url for nb 6.9 (last update: 12/17/2010): http://www.colar.net/fantomide/plugin/6.9/updates.xml
Url for nb 6.8 (last update: 6/7/2010): http://www.colar.net/fantomide/plugin/6.8/updates.xml
- Press OK to save it
- Go to "Available plugins" Tab (sort by Name)
- Select the checkbox next to "Fantom"
- Click "Install"
- Follow the wizard (Next/Install), ignore the "Not trusted" warning (Continue)
- Click Finish and close the plugins panel.
- Restart Netbeans
Fantom support is now installed!
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Title: Minor typos
While "Follow the wizzrad" and "officla" are entertaining :-) you might want to fix those typos. Thanks!
Title: My 2 cents.
I'm not seeing Fantom in the update centre. I had to add the source as you instructed here.
Title: Questions about fantom plugin
First of all: thanks for your efforts, i am using the plugin for several days now and it works great. However i have a few questions about missing features:
1) Auto indent is not working. Is this a bug or missing feature?
2) It would be great to be able to run fantom tests from NB, just like the Java ones (ctrl-f6)
3) Is a file type Fantom test planned? (create -> new -> Fantom test. Then the test file is created from a template and stored in the test directory)
Regards,
Ronald