Compiling App in Eclipse

Former Member over 10 years ago

I am looking at creating my first Datafield app and have created a new project and have tested some of the samples. The problem I have is my projects are missing the prg files in the bin directory. How do I compile them from in eclipse if I try to run I get an error stating unable to find .prg file.

Prob just missing something obvious. If i can get the basics then hopefully will be able to create some great functionality in the future. Also is there a way of testing on a real device. As if I buy a garmin 920xt I would like to test that it can actually connected to a concept2 rower before publishing.

Thanks

stewa285 over 10 years ago

When I installed Eclipse, the menu item "Project->Build Automatically" was checked, so I guess it builds as soon as you edit and save a file. Otherwise I guess "Build all" will do the trick. Any error messages in the connectiq.builder console? Did you do all steps under "Getting Started" in the "Monkey C Programmers Guide.pdf" ?

Former Member over 10 years ago

When I installed Eclipse, the menu item "Project->Build Automatically" was checked, so I guess it builds as soon as you edit and save a file. Otherwise I guess "Build all" will do the trick. Any error messages in the connectiq.builder console? Did you do all steps under "Getting Started" in the "Monkey C Programmers Guide.pdf" ?

Yes - tried each of the app types and it is only on the Data field app type the other seem to be there automatically. I want to learn programming by creating a datafields which will give projection for 10km and half marathon finish times based on the following formula.

Projected 10km time = duration(timeelapsed) + ((10 - distance) / averagespeed) * 3600 and something similar for half marathon and maybe full marathon.

stewa285 over 10 years ago

Hmm, might be a error in the template for "Data Field" apps. Just created a app called test1 and got this compilation error

ERROR:Unknown:0: Cannot find label Toybox_WatchUi_SimpleField
Build Complete

Changing
class test1View extends Ui.SimpleField
to
class test1View extends Ui.SimpleDataField
fixed that

Former Member over 10 years ago

yes that fixes it - now to get my head around how to convert time and meters per second and getting the display in the right format.

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hmm, might be a error in the template for "Data Field" apps. Just created a app called test1 and got this compilation error

ERROR:Unknown:0: Cannot find label Toybox_WatchUi_SimpleField
Build Complete

Changing
class test1View extends Ui.SimpleField
to
class test1View extends Ui.SimpleDataField
fixed that

STEWA285 is correct. The template used when creating a new Data Field project references an older, renamed API. This problem has been reported and will be fixed in the future.