Which IDE?

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Hi,
I have tried installing two IDEs but so far got neither to connect correctly.

I am using a Win 10 laptop and a Win 7.
Testing with CMD window is fine but .. if I enter q next to the command prompt


it does not invoke q - I think I set the PATH and HOME etc.,correctly but maybe not.


I still have to enter an explicit path to the q.exe


currently these are set


QHOME C:\q

QLIC C:\q

i am user as per

TEMP C:\Users\GWM2\AppData\Local\temp

The cmd prompt defaults to

C:\Users\GWM2<font size=‘“2”’>

but 

C:\Users\GWM2\q does not work 

I have to go back to C:\ and enter C:\q\w64\q

which works

The full path to q.exe is C:\q\w64\q.exe


1. Installing Developer as per instructions, I get as far as


Connecting to Developer

“To connect to Developer, open a modern web browser and navigate to the URL output to the q console when you start Developer.” … But there is no URL generated , just the path to launcher.


q)til 6

0 1 2 3 4 5


q) C:\developer\launcher.q_

That gets me this:'\ [0] C:\developer\launcher.q_



q is installed

C:\q\w64\q.exe


2. qStudio

Install goes OK, try to set a server as per the instructions, but I get no connection to any server:

q)-p500

'-

[0] -p500

^

q)

Server localhost:5000 not connected

But I dble clicked on the file in C:\q\q.k and it opened in qStudio

But server still shows not connected or ##Server changed to ->null


Are there some checks I can do on environment settings that might be wrong?

What IDE is widely used that might be integrated with an automated install?

Eventually I want to automate searches for patterns in price tic data that I currently apply manually to candle charts. Existing tools for time and price patterns? i’d need to connect to TradeStation currently.


Thanks

Cheers,


Gary


2

Hello Gary,

  1. It seems that you have not set your path correctly. There must be an entry like C:\q\w64 in your path. So when you open your environment variable it should be like PATH=“..;..;C:\q\w64;..”

  2. Your QHOME set seems correct if you have installed q under C:\q

  3. You do not require to set QLIC if your license is under C:\q. That will simply use the default setting from QHOME.

  4. To be able to connect to your q process through a web browser either;

  • Start your q process with a -p <port-number> flag, i.e C:> q -p 50002
  • Or in your q process issue a \p <port-number> command, i.e q) \p 50002
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Hi Kadir,
Thanks. Got the PATH set OK but still getting no joy with:

q)3+3

6

q)c:\developer\launcher.q_

'\

  [0]  c:\developer\launcher.q_

                   ^

q)C:\developer\launcher.q_

'\

  [0]  C:\developer\launcher.q_

                    ^

q)-p 5000

'-

  [0]  -p 5000

       ^

q)

…

q)C:\developer\developer-1.3.0-windows\analyst

'\

  [0]  C:\developer\developer-1.3.0-windows\analyst

Developer config is: 

@echo off 

 

REM 

REM Interactive installer variables 

REM 

set “DEVELOPER_HOME=C:\developer” 

set “DEVELOPER_DATA=C:\developer\data” 

set “DEVELOPER_PORT=8080” 

set “DEVELOPER_USE_TLS=no” 

set “KX_SSL_CERT_FILE=” 

set “KX_SSL_CA_CERT_FILE=” 

set “KX_SSL_KEY_FILE=” 

set “DEVELOPER_USE_AUTH=no” 

set “DEVELOPER_WORKSPACE_CD=yes” 

 

REM Uncomment the following variables if using TLS with kdb+ v3.5 or earlier 

REM set “SSL_CERT_FILE=” 

REM set “SSL_CA_CERT_FILE=” 

REM set “SSL_KEY_FILE=” 

 

REM 

REM Internal variables 

REM 

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\developer\ws\lib;C:\developer\ws\lib\odbc 

set DEVELOPER_PLUGIN_PATH=C:\developer\plugins 

Cheers,

Gary

4

Hello Gary,

You are doing 2 things wrong:

A) You first open the q process and try to launch the developer. Do not do this, instead follow the steps below:

  1. Open a command console, preferably as an administrator, and change directory to your developer/config folder.
  2. Run config.bat
  3. Run q C:\developer\launcer.q_
  4. Open a browser and navigate to the prompted address, most likely http://localhost:8088

B) To make q listen to a port you are issuing a -p 5000 command, this is wrong. You have to use the \p 5000 command in a q process -OR- start q with the -p flag like q -p 5000.

Hope this helps!

Regards.

5

PS both are working now, reran config etc, Thank you.  

6

Try QInsightPad
http://www.qinsightpad.com/

7

+1 for qPad

8

Thank you, guys, glad you still like qPad ;)

Oleg