yea ive been trying to understand the getting started tut ok your wiki and i just cant seem to get it to work mainly the part on the cvs thing could any simplify this into laymen's terms for me?
vash said:
yea ive been trying to understand the getting started tut ok your wiki and i just cant seem to get it to work mainly the part on the cvs thing could any simplify this into laymen's terms for me?
If accessing the CVS is too complicated (or just technically impossible, as with me here), just download the 0.10 package or the nightly build, put it into cour classpath, and you're set to go.
@nodwick: i suppose he wants the sources for taking a look at how things are done.
@vash:
if you need the sources of jme (which is good for learning), you'll have to do the cvs thingy 
quote from CVS - Open Source Version Control
CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents.
that's because you said you have problems understanding this part.
the best thing to do would be to grab an IDE like eclipse or netbeans. these have built-in cvs support, and there are wiki articles about how to set everything up.
if you still want to do the console thing, you'll first have to download the client:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/project/memberlist.php?detailed=1&group=cvs
if you preffer a GUI client:
http://wincvs.org/index.html
(there are other good GUI cvs clients, but there is no howto for them in the wiki)
everything else concerning cvs checkout is in the wiki, but feel free to ask if you have questions.
sfera said:
if you need the sources of jme (which is good for learning), you'll have to do the cvs thingy :)
That's not true. Nightly and release come with source, too.
Still, a game developer should really be able to use CVS :) - so maybe you should follow sferas suggestions.
uh… i didn't know that the nightly builds come with sources. i never touched them ://
sorry about that
ok ill try it with netbeans, thanks for the fast responses
ok so i got the code and compiled it, now when i try to do the helloworld tut on the wiki its keeps saying some like
*********** Exception occurred ************ at 5:47 PM on Sep 24, 2006
java.lang.NullPointerException
can someone help with this
The tests/demos that come with jME run fine?
To tell what might be wrong in your application is really hard to tell if you don't provide a code snippet or an exception stacktrace. The best would be to post both (short code preferrably :)).
im confused on what your asking but ill take swing at wut i think u mean, there is no problem with the java code it self besides the fact it keeps telling me the i have to name it HelloWorld. java when its named HelloWorld. java, i think the problem is with netbeans but i cant find a fix for it
vash said:
im confused on what your asking but ill take swing at wut i think u mean, there is no problem with the java code it self besides the fact it keeps telling me the i have to name it HelloWorld. java when its named HelloWorld. java, i think the problem is with netbeans but i cant find a fix for it
Try to give exact and complete output whenever possible.
With the naming issue, check the capitalization of the files. This may easily cause problems on windows machines.
ok ive come to the conclusion that netbeans really just sucks major ass, so im goin to start from scratch with Jcreater since i know how to use it alot better
ok im on the cvs part of the tut again at the part where it says
First, if you haven
Maybe post that cvs totally and absolutly sucks … and try out the nightly builds 
(Sorry, but You asked for it by turning down my favorite IDE)
@winkman: everyone has the right to have an opinion and i suppose vash is quite frustrated so please understand that.
on the other sidde i slowly become frustrated too vash, because there is a bit of text on that 'General' tab which says where those settings can be found.
just use 'remote'->'checkout module…'.
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All right, i well understand the frustration, but still no need to pollute the forums with some a… words.
vash i can't help out with WinCvs but i can post my cvs settings for netbeans if You'd give it another try.
thanks sfera for being so helpful i got it working
well, you're welcome and i'm glad you got it working. just keep in mindt that cvs/svn will come up often if you are interested in software development so get used to them
so what did you use? wincvs, command line cvs or an IDE with cvs support?
i used wincvs that was before i found out that jcreater had cvs support