I've been trying the Torsion IDE for Torque Game Engine this week. Before I was using TextPad or CodeWright and just managing the projects by hand. It wasn't a big deal before, but I did have to find the error lines by hand.
The biggest difference is that the error output has a clickable interface and keeping the errors red makes it much easier to find the errors in the log. My only gripe so far is that the log window is not searchable which is annoying, but it has really sped up my workflow in so many other ways that I think I'll probably buy it when the 20 day trial is over.
I've seen some mention a that there is an eclipse plugin for Torque. I've been a long time user of NetBeans. I typically find an environment that I like and stick with it until it's either irrelevant or something very compelling gets me to switch. I'm doubting the Eclipse plugin is as closely tied to the Torque engine (it has a built-in debugger I have not yet tried) as the Torsion IDE and wonder if the error logs are hot linked to the source lines?
Has anyone tried the Torque plugin for Eclipse and have any insight? It might save me some time and frustration of learning yet another IDE although that will probably start some sort of flame war with people pitching one IDE against another. My view is that the tool that works for you/me is the best tool and it's just not worth arguing over.
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