Here's a quick guide to using Programmers Notepad as an IDE for compiling NDS binaries. The first thing I noticed is that the templates were all messed up in my examples I posted so I have fixed them all and reposted them.
On the left side of the screen you have a Projects window that should have the arm7 and arm9 folders and in them "header" and "source" folders containing the source code.
For some reason the posted examples were stuffed and I had to delete their folders and add new ones. Then inside those folders you right click and add the source files.
Now you should have all your source files in folders on the left of the screen. Double clicking a file should open it up for editing. You can double click the titlebar to make it fill the space available.
First of all the syntax hilighting is not really working for arm so I added some of the opcodes myself. Download the attached file called asm_scheme.zip and extract the asm.scheme file to C:\devkitPro\Programmers Notepad\schemes overwriting the old one. Now you will at least see the arm opcodes hilighted. Unfortunately it doesn't recognize '@' commented lines and I could not for the life of me change that.
Now we should have syntax hilighting working okay. Next we will look at the 3 most important features of this IDE.
Under the Tools menu you will see "make", "clean" and "run".
* "make" - will simply call make on the makefile and build the project.
* "clean" - will clean the project and compile fresh. This is important if major changes were made and the project needs a complete recompile
* "run" - This should launch the emulator and run your compiled .nds file. By default this is not set up but I have reuploaded the projects and changed this.
You need to open the MyProject.pnproj file in notepad and change the <Project name="template"> to be <Project name="MyProject"> replacing "MyProject" with the name of your project and it must match the name of the compiled .nds (Eg. MyProject.nds).
Now you will need to view the attached images which will guide you through setting up iDeaS to run when you select Tools->run from the menu.
