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I want my file creation back.
Tjaalie:
:( I want the file creation thingy back :(
Im going to use older nightly's becouse this way s*cks.
But anyway thanks to the developers for the great peace of software
there working on. I hope one day when I get back home with a hangover
and I crawl to the computer to find help becouse my girlfriend left me and
check codeblocks.org and find myself a nightly with the old file creation style
and I will thank god for the fact that he gave me the most imported thing in live.
Code Blocks
*hope my girlfriend doesn't read this*
killerbot:
What are you missing in the cuurent file new. You have 2 ways now.
1) wizard
2) file new (empty) --> untitled -> save it and you can give it a name and type as you like
:?:
thomas:
--- Quote from: MortenMacFly on July 18, 2006, 10:46:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: thomas on July 18, 2006, 10:42:31 pm ---That's the added extra "smartness" you have to live with :(
--- End quote ---
...and that's out of your mouth... ;-)
...anyway: read my previous post (our posts have crossed) and tell me what's wrong with it?
--- End quote ---
Hey, it's not me who wants wizards everywhere ;)
In my opinion, wizards are for children or for people who just learn how to use a computer, not for programmers.
Granted, for a few complicated things, a wizard can be helpful. But for simple things, simple solutions are good, and things should never be smarter than they need to be (because they are not).
--- Quote ---2) file new (empty) --> untitled -> save it and you can give it a name and type as you like
--- End quote ---
That's an attempt to find a solution for a problem that would not be there if things were not made complicated without need in the first place. And it is a bad solution, too. You have to manually add the file to the project later.
killerbot:
--- Quote ---You have to manually add the file to the project later.
--- End quote ---
but often you want a new file and you don't want it to be added to a project. Sometimes you don't even want it saved (print purposes, say little scratchpad). Andthen you have a wizard asking you if it shold be added to the project or not. Woops ..; a wizard ;-) :mrgreen:
thomas:
Well, I don't use Code::Blocks as scratchpad. Sadly, SciTE is a lot more usable for that purpose.
Anyway, my point is that "normal, common" things should be easy, and they aren't now.
Creating a console or Win32 application needs a filename and a base path, and that's it. Using the new wizard takes 3 times as long as before. The same goes for a wxWidgets project.
I resort to making a copy of an existing projects now and rename the project file afterwards. That's still less annoying than using the wizard, and I know that it does exactly what I want.
Adding a new source to an existing project happens really often, I do it several times every day. Adding the files by hand is really tedious, and the Wizard even more so.
I could even appreciate using a Wizard, if it was really saving work instead of causing more!
For example, you usually add a source and a header file at the same time, and both need to be added to the same target.
Here, a wizard could really save you some work! It could create the source and the header, insert header guards into the header file and an #include statement into the source, save both files to the target location, and add them both to the selected target(s).
All of this by providing one filename (or basename) and clicking on "OK, do it". That would be great.
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