Eclipse is deprecated?

The eclipse plugin is not deprecated but will not reveive new features (see the system 5 news item). The vs code plugin is the recommended plugin.

I also don't see the eclipse plugin setup instructions in the official documentation, I would suggest to create a bug report.

To set up the eclipse plugin you can follow these instructions starttorun.info/.../

I’m pretty sure the Eclipse docs were removed on purpose. archive.org only has one snapshot for the Connect IQ Getting Started page (which says a lot). It’s from April 2021 and it has the Eclipse setup instructions we all know and love. It would be hard to believe that they were removed by accident. But maybe Garmin will bring them back if enough ppl complain.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20210420011749/https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-basics/getting-started/]

(Personally I wouldn’t recommend Eclipse for anyone. But if you want to build with older SDKs, to update existing apps without incurring the slight memory overhead of newer SDKs, it’s your only choice.)

hi, due to this post, I installed VSCode and GIQ plugin following the steps in the documentation...

but can't get it to work,

for exemple, if I try running the simulator (ctrl+F5) I get:

Connect IQ project not found. Be sure your project has a monkey.jungle file and the project's Jungle Files setting is correct.

or if I try "Edit product" I get:

Connect IQ project not found. Be sure your project has a monkey.jungle file and the project's Jungle Files setting is correct.

did I miss something in the installation?

FlowState said:

I’m pretty sure the Eclipse docs were removed on purpose

I disagree, if the plugin is not deprecated it should be present in the docs imho.

this is a quote from the news item:

"We are not deprecating the Eclipse plug-in at this time, but we also are not planning any future enhancements for the plug-in. All new development will be focused on the Visual Studio Code extension." 

full news item here: forums.garmin.com/.../welcome-to-connect-iq-system-5

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) said:

hi, due to this post, I installed VSCode and GIQ plugin following the steps in the documentation...

but can't get it to work,

don't open the root folder, but open the folder with "open folder" to open the connect iq project in question you want to work on

hi, many thanks, that was that indeed...

so like Eclipse, you can't have all your project somewhere?

no very convinient if you want to do a copy past from another one...

have a great day. still exploring VScode

I have a single folder with about 300 projects, and with eclipse, they are all in one big workspace,  With VS Code, I again have a workspace, but have a smaller number of projects, using the exact same folder I use in eclipse.  So the projects are in the sample place, I can copy/paste between projects in the vs code workspace.

Right now, I have eclipse set to use the 4.0.6 SDK and vs code, the 4.1.0-beta1 SDK, so I can build iq files in eclipse, and test new stuff with VS code (you can't build iq files with 4.1.0-beta1)

Yes, at this point I think both eclipse and VS code should be included,  There is a work-around, though not the best.  The doc for CIQ on developer.garmin.com doesn't have Eclipse, but the doc included with the 4.0.6 SDK does.  In the root of an SDK is the doc for that SDK, so ConnectIQBasics in 4.0.6 does have the instructions for Eclipse.

hi, great!! it seems I hav'ent set well my workspace,

now I have it but it only launch the first project on the list when I launch the sim

even if the right file is opned in the OPEN EDITORS...

You can use launch.json's.  Here I can select which thing I want to run, without having any editor windows opened.

At the bottom of this list, is the option to add more configs.

peterdedecker said:

FlowState said:

I’m pretty sure the Eclipse docs were removed on purpose

I disagree, if the plugin is not deprecated it should be present in the docs imho.

I only meant that somebody must have made a conscious decision to delete the Eclipse docs from the Getting Started page on the Garmin Connect IQ website, that's all. I'm not saying whether I agree with the decision or not. I said "removed on purpose", not "correctly removed".

As another data point, the Eclipse docs have also been removed from the Getting Started page of the 4.1.0 Beta SDK docs.

I still stand by my statement that I wouldn't recommend Eclipse for any new users (for reasons that have nothing to do with Monkey C), but that's just my opinion.