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Birdeeoh:
Adding syntax highlighting for Objective-C is a simple addition to the current lexer_cpp.xml file and thats great - but what about "full" support for Objective C, namely having Code Blocks realize that a *.m file is a "source" file, not an "other" file?

As it is now I can manually tell codeblocks to compile and link my .m "other" files, one by one.  Since the GCC compiler handles both regular C and Obj-C it would simply be a matter of convincing CodeBlocks that .m is a c source file.  If there is any easy way to do this, I've missed it...  thanks for your help!

Der Meister:

--- Quote from: Birdeeoh on January 28, 2006, 10:51:11 pm ---If there is any easy way to do this, I've missed it...

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Yes, you missed it. ;)
Just do a 'right-click' in the 'Management'-window and select 'Edit file types & categories...'. There you can add *.m to the file-endings for source files. ;)

Birdeeoh:
Yup, that sure was easy.

Out of curiosity, is/was there a menu option I missed?

I was checking menus and right-clicking on text to try to find an option - never thought to right-click in open space  :)

Thanks for your quick help!

duncanka:

--- Quote from: Birdeeoh on January 29, 2006, 03:49:47 am ---Out of curiosity, is/was there a menu option I missed?

I was checking menus and right-clicking on text to try to find an option - never thought to right-click in open space  :)

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Well, there's Project-->Project tree-->Edit filetypes & categories.  "Project tree" is the same here as it is in the "Management" right-click menu.

Birdeeoh:
Welp, the problem was kinda fixed, but not really.  Whether I use the rightclick menu or the project-> menu, I can get *.m classified as source.  Great!  However, when I add a new *.m to my project it still does not automatically have "compile" and "link" checked.  It gets classified as a source file, but is greyed out and not included in my build until I manually check those boxes!

Sorry if I'm asking questions I should be able to figure out...  it's just that this is the first "real" IDE I've ever used.  I'm from the vi + console windows developer ilk and am just foraying into this full-blown deal so I don't know where I should look.  Where I think I should be looking obviously isn't  right  ;)

Thanks again for the help!

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