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Lacks and troubleshooting in GDB and Plugins
jvpic:
Hello C::B developpers and users !
I am a newbee in C::B : it is a great IDE but it lacks for :
1) A good documentation
2) Dll and fixed libraries for wxWidgets which is used by more 60% of users and is difficult to compile and integrate in C::B
I suggest to improve those two points in future.
And here some difficulties :
1) GDB works but with troubleshooting in particular the highlighting of the active line in GDB. I must move a breakpoint step by step to know where the debuging is and read the watch window !
2) The plugin source formater does not show a dialogue box for choosing the style : it works only with ANSI style.
3) The plugin help is not in the menu Plugins, so it is not possible to active it to install more help (wxWidgets, GDB, STL etc...) in the menu.
I must say that all plugins are activated in Plugins manager.
Perhaps somebody can help me :D
kidmosey:
--- Quote from: jvpic on July 16, 2006, 11:14:10 am ---1) A good documentation
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What kind of documentation do you seek? The SDK docs are available from BerliOS. As far as usage docs, have you checked out the wiki? Personally, I think a better alternative would be to streamline the interface to make everything more self-explanatory, adding the shortcut keys to tooltips and things like that. The only parts of any applications' docs I ever use are the 'about page' and the 'keyboard shortcuts' page.
SDK Docs and Files: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5358
Wiki: http://wiki.codeblocks.org/
--- Quote from: jvpic on July 16, 2006, 11:14:10 am ---2) Dll and fixed libraries for wxWidgets which is used by more 60% of users and is difficult to compile and integrate in C::B
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They do offer pre-compiled mingw and wxWidgets libraries. As far as making it easier to compile them, you may need to contact mingw and wxwidgets about that. You can, however, check the wiki to see which settings to use.
http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Compiling_wxWidgets_2.6.2_to_develop_Code::Blocks_%28MSW%29
--- Quote from: jvpic on July 16, 2006, 11:14:10 am ---1) GDB works but with troubleshooting in particular the highlighting of the active line in GDB. I must move a breakpoint step by step to know where the debuging is and read the watch window !
2) The plugin source formater does not show a dialogue box for choosing the style : it works only with ANSI style.
--- End quote ---
These two I can't help you with. Maybe one of the developers can lend you a hand here.
--- Quote from: jvpic on July 16, 2006, 11:14:10 am ---3) The plugin help is not in the menu Plugins, so it is not possible to active it to install more help (wxWidgets, GDB, STL etc...) in the menu.
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The help plugin is now integrated in the settings dialog. Settings->Environment->Help Files. I spent a good hour last night to figure this one out. Maybe we can convince Ceniza (I think he's maintaining the help plugin) to add something in the about dialog.
Pecan:
--- Quote from: kidmosey on July 16, 2006, 11:45:58 am ---The help plugin is now integrated in the settings dialog. Settings->Environment->Help Files. I spent a good hour last night to figure this one out. Maybe we can convince Ceniza (I think he's maintaining the help plugin) to add something in the about dialog.
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Good idea. I also had to hunt up the help file entry dialog.
@Ceniza
Could you kindly place in the main menu/help plugin/help/info section a blurb saying that the help file entry dialog is under Settings->environment->helpfiles.
thanks
pecan
sethjackson:
--- Quote from: kidmosey on July 16, 2006, 11:45:58 am ---
--- Quote from: jvpic on July 16, 2006, 11:14:10 am ---2) Dll and fixed libraries for wxWidgets which is used by more 60% of users and is difficult to compile and integrate in C::B
--- End quote ---
They do offer pre-compiled mingw and wxWidgets libraries. As far as making it easier to compile them, you may need to contact mingw and wxwidgets about that. You can, however, check the wiki to see which settings to use.
http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Compiling_wxWidgets_2.6.2_to_develop_Code::Blocks_%28MSW%29
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Actually C::B doesn't provide a pre-compiled wxWidgets binary. Well okay the dll comes with C::B because C::B has to have it. However you can't compile a wxWidgets app if you only have the dll. You have to have the lib files too. AFAIK there are no plans to provide pre-compiled binaries of anything (except for MinGW).
You can however search the 'net for a wxWidgets dev-pack. The dev-pack has all you need to compile wx programs IIRC. :)
jvpic:
--- Quote from: kidmosey on July 16, 2006, 11:45:58 am ---The help plugin is now integrated in the settings dialog. Settings->Environment->Help Files. I spent a good hour last night to figure this one out. Maybe we can convince Ceniza (I think he's maintaining the help plugin) to add something in the about dialog.
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No in the stable release Settings->Environment does'nt point to help files ! Sorry ! Then help plugin is integrated but there is no mean to activate it in 1rc2 stable release !
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