Talk:Robocode/Add a Robot Project

Hi all. I have some problems with it. I create an eclipse project, then copy to this project sample folder from robocode/robots (as example). Then in robocode I open options->preferences->Development options and add path to the bin folder of my project (it has the same sample folder with compiled by eclipse class files). Is this correct? The problem is that the New submenu in robocode main window remains empty after that, I don't see my classes. If there is no any custom classpath in the Development options, robocode again can see default packages without problems. What could it be? Operating system: Mandriva Linux --Eredory 18:24, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Hm, this sounds quite odd. Perhaps set the eclipse project up so the source and the bin directories are the same? (In the new project wizard, "Use project folter as root for sources and class files" instead of "Create seperate folders for sources and class files") I've always found it works more smoothly that way. --Rednaxela 01:59, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I use same directory for binaries as well, and also I prefer the running from Eclipse method, I think is much better. The problem is that it uses a new robot directory, so at the beginning is empty or with your robot only, but you can copy the samples or any other bots into it. What I do is remove source folder src, create a source folder called robots, exclude from robots build path ".robotcache/" (without the quotes), and the rest is set up as the page posted above. --zyx 04:39, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello, all. I'm brand new to Robocode (and using wiki discussions to ask questions), so please forgive me if this question has been answered before and if I'm going about asking it the wrong way.

I'm trying to integrate the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, version Helios Service Release 2, using JDK1.6.0_24, with Robocode version 1.7.3.5, in Windows 7.

I followed the instructions in the wiki for adding an Eclipse robot project, but no matter what I've tried I get the following error message (or one like it, depending on how I configured my project and how I reference it in Robocode):

Got an error with MyFirstRobot.bmu.MyFirstRobot: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: MyFirstRobot/bmu/MyFirstRobot (wrong name: bmu/MyFirstRobot)

My project name is MyFirstRobot, my package name is bmu, and my robot class name is MyFirstRobot. I've tried both of the "Use project folder as root for sources and class files" and "Create seperate folders for sources and class files" settings when creating the project. In the Robocode/Options/Preferences/Development Options tab, I've tried adding my workspace folder and/or child folders to the .class containing folder, all to no avail.

This problem also occurs when I try to run my project from Eclipse as described in another related wiki page.

Any ideas? (And thanks in advance!)

Problem solved. There may have been more then one thing wrong, but I think at this point, it had mostly to do with which folder(s) I was adding in the Robocode/Options/Preferences/Development Options tab. I believe that initially I misread the label on the tab, and I added just my Eclipse workspace root, thinking it would look for all robots in all projects in the workspace. When that didn't work, I added the project folder that actually contained my robot .class file (e.g. when using "Use project folder as root for sources and class files", then C:\workspace\project\package\class, or when using "Create separate folders for sources and class files", then C:\workspace\project\bin\package\class). I figured out that you must add the project folder that contains the package (which might not always be the project root folder as suggested in the label; e.g. when using "Use project folder as root for sources and class files", then C:\workspace\project, or when using "Create seperate folders for sources and class files", then C:\workspace\project\bin).