Hi afb,
I was briefly diverted to other tasks…
I checked out and built CodeBlocks SVN 6336. The console terminal window is now being displayed during debugger sessions – I can now see the console app’s standard output.
Thanks very much for your effort. It will be a great help in moving forward. Thanks also oBFusCATed.
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Other Info: I have been working with CodeBlocks for a while now on the Mac platform. I have performed “usage type” testing as I have been developing real production code with the IDE. I have made notes regarding what works and appears stable and what seems to have a few hiccups. I use the functionality that works and shy away from the rest.
Currently I am now running a pretty stable configuration of CodeBlocks on the Mac. It is in fact stable enough for me that I am productive using CodeBlock on Mac’s OS X 10.6.3. Exactly the original intended goal. I mean – I am really getting productive.
Note for anyone else reading this: The Windows and especially the Linux builds of CodeBlocks are excellent.
If I may, there are only three issues that – if resolved – would make a big difference immediately for the Mac build:
1) Editor keyboard input is especially slow.
I don’t know why this is. As soon as I can free up a bit of time, I will try look into this under the debugger. If this could be resolved, it would be very, very good and would immediately impact the user’s productivity. Hopefully this is high on the Mac ToDo list of “things” to investigate.
I have not seen any editor related crashes and everything else about the editor appears stable.
2)The code completion plugin appears to be related to 2 CodeBlocks crashes I have witnessed.
Two instances of crashing I have seen:
1)
Closing a workspace with the code completion plugin loaded and enabled will crash C::B. This “crash” is repeatable. I have looked over the crash dumps and I can see what led up to the termination. Also, when exiting C::B, the same crash occurs.
2)
When saving configuration settings, CodeBlocks will crash. It appears the code completion plugin is also related to this. Hmmm…..
3)Menu keyboard shortcuts have some “teething pains”. All of the keyboard shortcut issues have a work around so this is not mission critical. I am just thinking about development productivity – that’s all.
I am a long time keyboard guy and it slows me down whenever I have to grab for the mouse.
In closing:Right now, I use a minimal set of the plugins. I am working around the code completion plugin related issues – I enable/disable code completion depending on what I need to do. Normally I leave code completion ON because of the productivity boost it yields.
The keyboard input rate is pretty important. I think this is the most important thing to resolve.
I am sure the CodeBlocks development team is aware of this “stuff”. I hope this information is useful non-the-less.
As usual, kudos to the entire development team and great work on this IDE.
Simply wonderful.
Thank you,
edwin