[sangbin.hana]

I am a new bee to know nothing about openfoam

I just finished install openfoam and do some simple tutorial

My major is coal combustion-> I heard that openfoam combustion library not good. But I have to do it

I knew that most important part of openfoam is making a library and compile.

But there are many way to compile openfoam library, like a eclipse ande Qt creator, and even someone use specific type of own program.

I knew this is some stupid question. But I want to have clean start, If I choose wrong program to compile openfoam at first time, It could be disaster for my work later.

Please answer my question. I am sorry to my poor English Thanks.

[tomislav_maric]

My advice will start a flame war probably, but I would suggest that you just work in the console and use Vim text editor together with the plugins:

• ack.vim
• nerdcommenter
• nerdtree
• snipmate.vim
• vim-colors-solarized
• vim-fswitch
• vim-fugitive
• vim-taglist

There is a benefit in IDEs, e.g. Eclipse, when it comes to refactoring (that's the only one I can see). However working with a text editor (read Vim ) keeps you close to the code - it forces you to learn where what is in the code base and how it's named, be it class, function, etc.


Vim takes some time to learn, but once you do, your editing speed will xplode. If that what you edit will compile + run, that's up to you


Good luck!

[bluenail]

I appreciate your answer.

Thank you ^^

I start work using .txt based.

Thank you for your help.

(I change ID)

[marc.immer]

Hi,

I prefer QtCreator.
Here is a nice tutorial on how to set it up:
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ho...with_QtCreator

Hint: create an alias to qt-creator in your .bashrc. Open a terminal, load your openfoam environment, then execute qtcreator. This will give you all the path working, and in your projects build settings, your can just use foamExec without the full path.

To get code completion, open a terminal, navigate to the OpenFoam installation folder and type:
find $PWD -type d -name lnInclude > pathfile
Copy to content of the pathfile to the projects xx.includes file.

Cheers
Marc

[bluenail]

Thank you for answer.
I appreciate your hint.

This could be helpful tip for everyone thanks ^^