Gild 2.0.3 (Research Version)

New Features | Feature Enhancements | Bug Fixes | Download and Install

New Features

Works with Eclipse 3.0!
New Gild Problem View: Following the new Eclipse 3.0 standard, "Problems" no longer appear in the "Tasks" view. There is a new view called the "Gild Problem View". It displays Java errors and warnings, plus additional feedback. For a number of common Java problems, some infopops are supplied that give some extra hints about what might be causing the problem:

Feature Enhancements

Improved Gild Resource Navigator: The Gild Resource navigator used to reset its state every time Gild was loaded. It now remembers what resources were selected, and what projects/folders were expanded so that the view now looks the same each time Gild is run.
Improved Vertical Ruler: The Gild Editor vertical ruler will now toggle breakpoints on double-clicks. This follows the same convention as the Eclipse Java editor.

Bug Fixes

Gild Web Browser Now Resolves Relative Paths to Files. There used to be a problem with the Gild Web browser when Active HTML was enable that caused the browser to not resolve relative paths to files unless a <base> tag was present in the <head> portion of the HTML. This made it very cumbersome to include images in HTML files. The Gild web browser now automatically inserts <base> tags when appropriate so that image files can be properly resolved.
Gild Run/Debug Action Enablement Fixed. On very rare occasions, the Gild Run/Debug actions could become permanently disabled. This problem has been fixed.
Gild Problem View Fixed. There was a problem with the Gild Problem view which caused the workbench to throw errors after the Problem View was closed. This has been fixed.

Installation Instructions

(Email Gild Help if you have any problems)

1. Install Java SDK

If you do not have a Java SDK on your computer, you must install one You will need Java 2 SDK Standard Edition version 1.4. Mac users should already have an appropriate SDK installed. Please note that Eclipse 3.0 does not currently support the Java SDK version 1.5 because it is in the beta stage. Please use version 1.4 only.

You can get the latest 1.4 installer by following the "Download J2SE SDK" link on the Java download page. Windows users may want to read the Windows Installation Notes for more help with installation For other operating systems, or Windows 64-bit, follow the appropriate links on the Installation Notes page.

2. Install Eclipse SDK

If you do not have an Eclipse SDK on your computer, you must install one. You must have release 3.0 RC1 or later. This version of Gild will not work with previous versions of Eclipse.

Download the right ".zip" file for your operating system from the Eclipse 3.0 download page

mirror sites

Follow either the (http) or (ftp) links.
Unzip this file into an appropriate location on your computer. (For example: "C:\Program Files\" on Windows, or in the "/Applications/" folder on the Mac )
In order to complete the Eclipse install you must run Eclipse once.
Run by double-clicking (or invoking) the executable file. (For example: "C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe" on Windows, or "/Applications/eclipse/Eclipse" on the Mac). When Eclipse starts up, you will most likely see the image below. Normally, it will be okay to simply select Use this as the default and do not ask again, then select Okay.

3. Install Gild

1. Close Eclipse if running. Note: If you have not run Eclipse at least once, you should do so before installing gild.

2. Unzip gild_2.0.3.zip into your main Eclipse folder (For example: the "C:\Program Files\eclipse\" folder on Windows, or the "/Applications/eclipse/" folder on the Mac). The main Eclipse folder is the one that contains the executable and the "features" and "plugins" folders. All Gild's files will be automatically unzipped into these "plugins" and "features" folders.

3. Start Eclipse. Gild should now be installed. Select Window > Open Perspective > Other... > Gild to start using Gild.