Hi Derick,
Originally posted by Derickll Potgieterll:
I`ve just registered for the assigment and they say that you can use a a IDE tool of choice. Can i build my Gui also in this IDE??
As Satish has pointed out
you should not directly include any GUI code generated by your IDE. If you want to use the GUI code generated by your IDE for ideas about how you could implement your GUI I guess there's nothing wrong with that. It's important that you understand your code so if there's something generated by your IDE that you don't understand I wouldn't use it until I understood completely what it was doing, how it was doing it, and why it was doing it.
It's OK to use an IDE for development, but at some point in the
testing phase and certainly before submitting I would build everything from the command-line and, of course, run from the command line. Your application should build and run from the command-line without any problems.
Don't feel that you have to use a sophisticated IDE if you don't have one, or have one and don't want to use it. TextPad (shareware) is a very nice editor and you can build and run your application using scripts from the command-line (or even better
Ant). It's not a huge project so you won't be overwhelmed by not using an IDE. It's a nice feeling to know that you can do everything you need to do without depending on an IDE. Sort of like driving a car with a manual transmission (always feel a little sorry for someone who never learned how).