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User forums => General (but related to Code::Blocks) => Topic started by: ironhead on May 30, 2005, 04:48:34 pm

Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: ironhead on May 30, 2005, 04:48:34 pm
I'd like to start out by saying I've very much impressed by Code::Blocks, it's by far the best IDE I've ever used for MinGW.  It managed to convert me from using Vim as my IDE.  ;)

I'd like to promote Code::Blocks on my site for the windows shell that I've written.  Beyond putting a blurb in the general about, I was wondering if there is a site button or something I should use?

Thanx again for Code::Blocks!
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: rickg22 on May 30, 2005, 05:06:25 pm
No, there isn't a button yet. But I'm sure you can create one from the Logo that we have :)
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: ironhead on May 31, 2005, 12:08:39 am
Hopefully this:

http://emergedesktop.org/e107_images/CodeBlocks.jpg

Is OK.

Cheers!
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: Anonymous on May 31, 2005, 12:24:11 am
can you make that pic a bit larger ?
and I think all of us should also put some CB advertisement signature at our e-amail or login at other forums.

rob
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: rickg22 on May 31, 2005, 12:25:57 am
Um wouldn't that be spamming? Besides that would really skew search engines IMO. About the pic: I think that re-writing the text in the button should improve it.
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: ironhead on May 31, 2005, 04:12:35 am
I'll do what I can with the text.  I'm not exactly a graphic artist.  :)
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: rickg22 on June 01, 2005, 08:53:31 pm
Hey, I found that googling for "Free C++ IDE" and "Dev-C++" leads us to many forums (as we saw on the "how did you find out about Codeblocks" thread).

Why don't we google for these terms, subscribe to the appropriate forums, and recommend Code::Blocks in there? (Note: Don't make a sales pitch, just mention it and give your *HUMBLE* opinion).
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: Yury Benesh (aka ybx) on June 01, 2005, 10:15:29 pm
I think it's too early to advert C::B, it's pretty buggy and unstable and there's no support for separate debug/release/... configurations...
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: Yury Benesh (aka ybx) on June 01, 2005, 10:16:26 pm
Some people could be distracted...
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: mandrav on June 01, 2005, 11:38:16 pm
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I think it's too early to advert C::B, it's pretty buggy and unstable and there's no support for separate debug/release/... configurations...

Huh?  :shock:
Are you sure you 're talking about Code::Blocks???
Buggy and unstable???
No debug/release configurations???

 :roll:  :?:

Yiannis.
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: David Perfors on June 01, 2005, 11:41:45 pm
Quote from: ybx
Some people could be distracted...
That could be true, but we need to get people who could tell us where the bugs are  :lol:
So let advertise ;)
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: rickg22 on June 02, 2005, 12:43:56 am
I agree. If we wait until 1.0 to adverstise, what happens if someone finds a bug when it's too late?
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: Yury Benesh (aka ybx) on June 02, 2005, 11:08:24 am
Quote from: mandrav
Quote
I think it's too early to advert C::B, it's pretty buggy and unstable and there's no support for separate debug/release/... configurations...

Huh?  :shock:
Are you sure you 're talking about Code::Blocks???
Buggy and unstable???
No debug/release configurations???

 :roll:  :?:

Yiannis.


ooops! Did I just not find them??? Then, it's a reason to write a readme.txt at least. SO how to add different configurations to the same project, e.g. ANSI Debug, ANSI Release, UNICODE Debug, UNICODE Release and to run BATCH BUILD to produce only UNICODE Release and ANSI Release, for instance, like in MSVC++ ?
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: rickg22 on June 02, 2005, 06:11:35 pm
Wait a second. When you say "debug/release", you mean for OTHER PROJECTS, right? :? (confused)
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: mandrav on June 02, 2005, 09:25:40 pm
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ooops! Did I just not find them???

The "configurations" as they 're called in msvc, are the build targets in C::B. At least that's my understanding, not having used msvc. But since msvc projects are imported correctly, along with their "configurations", I 'm pretty sure it's the same thing.

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it's pretty buggy and unstable

I still don't understand this assumption. I work with C::B all day, every day and I can tell immediately if it becomes unstable at some point in development. Also, immediately, I work on "stabilizing" it again...
I 'm not trying to say that it has no bugs whatsoever, but not the kind of bugs that would crash and burn it...

Yiannis.
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: rickg22 on June 02, 2005, 09:45:43 pm
Perhaps with "instable" he means that there are some bugs which would scare away newcomers. Like "instable" vs. "stable release". Dunno :?
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: Yury Benesh (aka ybx) on June 02, 2005, 10:01:31 pm
I met severe bugs when added custom compiler settings -- I posted bug reports via SF.NET, so you have probably already seen them. They are reproducable as for finalbeta version. Registry saving problem or smth. related. Other bugs were not met by me.
Title: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: Yury Benesh (aka ybx) on June 02, 2005, 10:05:34 pm
Nevertheless, the BEST ide for MingW !
Title: Re: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: Chocoboko on August 15, 2005, 08:43:24 pm
I think this site should have a buttons page where we can download buttons to advertise Code::Blocks.  I'm putting some buttons on my site to advertise and I'd love to advertise Code::Blocks.
Title: Re: Promoting Code::Blocks
Post by: rickg22 on August 15, 2005, 09:49:43 pm
OK, will work into it :)