First Steps
You will need the mt4j library installed on your machine in your favorite IDE. Recommended IDE is Eclipse. Here's an eclipse project with the mt4j libary ready to go. It links to the Google code repo of MT4j. To check this out, you'll need to grab a plugin called Subclipse. Here's a fly-by:
- Help > Install New Software...
- Click the dropdown menu and verify that "http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo/" is one of the locations in the list. If it's not, add it. (Note that if you're using a version of eclipse that's not Galileo, this will probably be different.)
- Click "Add..." in the upper-right.
- Put "Subclipse 1.6" in the name field, and " http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x" in the location field.
- Once added, you can select Subclipse 1.6 from the dropdown. When you do, you should see three items in the box below: "Core SVNKit Library," "Optional JNA Library," and "Subclipse." Check them all.
- Hit next.
- Hit next again. If the next button is disabled on this screen, then there are errors. (In my case, these were dependency errors that were resolved by adding the Galileo updates location mentioned above.)
- Click the "I accept the terms of these licenses I didn't read" radio button.
- Hit finish.
Once you have subclipse you can checkout MT4j by doing the following:
- Go to File > Import.
- Select SVN > Checkout Projects from SVN.
- Leave Create New Repository Location checked, hit next.
- Put "http://mt4j.googlecode.com/svn" in the URL field, and hit next.
- Select the trunk directory in the repo and hit next.
- Make sure to name the project "MT4j-GoogleCode" and hit finish to pull the project into your current workspace, or next if you want to put it in a different workspace.
- Wait on the download!
Other junk:
- If checkouts fail or you get an error specifically about JavaHL (version mismatches and such), go to Subclipse's options at Window > Preferences > SVN. Then under SVN Library, verify the client is set to SVNKit and not JavaHL.
- Sometimes Eclipse will think there's an error in the project right after checking the project out. If you clean and force it to rebuild your workspace, this usually clears up. (Found in Project > Clean.)
Source Code
This link will allow you to download the full source code and executable for the whiteboard project.