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Another good C/C++ IDE - wxDev-C++

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bud:
wxDev-C++
http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/
wxDev-C++ is an extension of Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al.

Grom:
Yes, this is good IDE but in doesn't work under Linux!!! I use this IDE only for GUI development. It doesn't have folding. So you can't organize you code in proper way.

Biplab:
wxDevC++ is a Good IDE.

But it has few drawbacks.

* It is available only in Windows.
* It supports GCC and MSVC 2005.
* It doesn't support multiple targets (AFAIK, please correct me if I'm wrong)
* The Form Designer has one peculiar problem. The design area is non-scrollable, i.e. if you increase the form size in design mode beyond it's limit there's no scroll-bar to help you.
* Code-completion is buggy. The IDE crashes very often due to this.
* Not much flexible. It allows you to use external makefiles; but not flexible with wxWidgets configurations. Whereas in C::B you get more flexibility (in terms of compilers, platforms, external makefiles, almost any wxWidgets configuration) to control the project.
It has some advantages, too.

* Great for beginners. Comes with compiled wx libs (so no headache of compiling wx for beginners). Easiest to start coding with wxWidgets.
* Integrated form designer is quite helpful for beginners.
IMHO, wxDevC++ is very good IDE for beginners who want to learn wxWidgets. Once the user is bit familiar with wx, they will find C::B to be far more useful.  :D

manutd:
Ick. After coding for >30 minutes, it randomly spews stack overflow errors and crashes your system. Terrible.

Grom:
On my compute wxDevC++ engine do not crash... It works pretty stable. But in has limitations. As code blocks as well. Hope that wxSmith soon will be good enough. The main problem of wxDevC++ is that we can't add custom component without Borland Delphi. Hope Byo will add that functionality soon. In That case wxSmith will have a lot of components, contributed by community. The same story was happond for Delphi 10 years ago, when they presented customizable component palette.

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