Provide InteliJ project template

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Provide InteliJ project template

Wavesonics opened this issue 4 years ago · 13 comments

This would make the initial setup for new users much simpler.

It looks like it's possibly as simply as described here:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/save-project-as-template-dialog.html

And it could be added to the Jetbrains plugin repo so that users can grab it from within InteliJ it's self.

Answer 1 · 2020-02-13T05:47:51.000Z

That really is a great idea! I you want to tackle this feel free.
Otherwise I will look at it once I'm done with #2 .

Answer 2 · 2020-02-13T07:21:55.000Z

Really great Idea ! It would clearly improve end user experience.

Answer 3 · 2020-02-13T15:22:58.000Z

Yeah I can take this one, on Discord it was mentioned that we want a different layout for the projects, where Kotlin is not a sibling directory, but instead inside of the Godot project directory. Does anyone have a specific layout in mind? If not I can figure out a sensible one.

Answer 4 · 2020-02-13T16:36:02.000Z

I'm fine if you make a suggestion. I think discussions about it can be made once the PR is up and should happen there to document it.
Thanks I'll assign you the task.

Answer 5 · 2020-02-13T16:55:54.000Z

Sounds good, I'll get a PR in soon

Answer 6 · 2020-02-13T17:44:32.000Z

I opened #26 to discuss the new project layout

Answer 7 · 2020-02-14T23:04:13.000Z

Ok I did some investigation into this today, and I don't think the save project template route is going to work well for us.

So now I'm investigating writing an InteliJ plugin that will give us a new project wizard.

https://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/tutorials/project_wizard/adding_new_steps.html

Answer 8 · 2020-02-16T02:59:57.000Z

Maybe we can also try implementing that as a Godot addon. We will make one anyway, creating the basic setup for a kotlin project can be part of it.

Answer 9 · 2020-02-17T05:57:43.000Z

@CedNaru that would be a really nice solution.

For the more immediate term, we might also just add a gradle task that does some of the boot strapping, like creating the gdnlib file.

I'm thinking setup instructions something like:

Create Godot project
Extract our Kotlin-Godot zip into project dir. That zip contains:

gradle wrapper scripts
our build.gradle.kts
Example.kt

./gradlew build

Step 3 along with a new gradle task we create, will create the gdnlib, and everything else.

Answer 10 · 2020-02-17T06:08:56.000Z

I started down the road of making a plugin for IntelliJ to add a New Project Wizard for GodotKotlin.

The skeleton is there, but there's still quite a bit of work to be done to make it actually create the project properly.

And I'm not completely sure this is the right approach.

Anyway the branch is here: https://github.com/Wavesonics/godot-kotlin/tree/feature/intellij-project-wizard

Answer 11 · 2020-02-17T07:58:45.000Z

That's awesome ! By the way, can we add an icon ? I know that's not the more important, but it really helps in a ui :)

Answer 12 · 2020-02-20T21:04:31.000Z

I think the correct approach is represented in #33

Answer 13 · 2020-02-21T20:44:45.000Z

I've investigated the IntelliJ specific solutions to my satisfaction and don't think they are the way forward.

The Godot Editor Plugin #33 is going to be the best way to integrate this and provide initial project setup IMO.

I'm closing this issue.