Slick and Netbeans
Through out the tutorial, we
will be working with NetBeans 6.9.1. In this section I'll show you how to
install the Slick library into your NetBeans. I'll provide
two links, one to download the Slick, and the other one is to download NetBeans.
For Slick, you'll need to download both of the files below:
Below is the link to download NetBeans 6.9.1
Since, this tutorial is focus
on installing library into your NetBeans, I'll assume you already have Netbeans
installed. Therefore, I'll not go through
Netbeans installation. Once you are finished downloading the Slick.zip and
lwjgl-2.7.1.zip, unzip them anywhere you like but remember the directory.
This is what you will see after unzipping Slick.zip
This is what you will see after unzipping lwjgl-2.7.1.zip
Now, in the lwjgl-2.7.1
directory, double click on the jar folder. Copy all the jar files inside
that jar folder then place all the jars into
" lib folder " which is inside the slick folder.
You will override one of the
jar file. If you get the same files as the above image, you are done. Now we
will work on how to use the library in
NetBeans. Open your NetBeans, then go to " Tools ", under tools click on "
Libraries ." Which it will look like the image below.
Now, click on " New Library "
Library Name:
SlickSet ( Note, you can put any name you want,
for me I'm using SlickSet as my Library Name ).
Library Name: Leave it as Class Libraries
Now select the Library you
just created, in this case I'll select SlickSet, which it should contains
nothing as shown in
the image below.
Click " Add JAR/Folder.. ",
browse to the slick/lib folder, then select all the jar files and click Add Jar.
So for me,
I'll browse into "random stuff/slick/lib " and Add all the jar in that folder. (
Note, you don't need to add the slick-util-src.zip)
Hence, after adding all the jar files, you will have an image similar to the one
below.
Now you have Slick libraries ready, lets do
some programming in the next section. If you are having trouble installing your
slick, email us or
leave us a comment in the forum under Slick Section.
