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Barking_Mad:
I am currently learning opengl programming and had the realisation that i could write a simple opengl reference plugin for code blocks, under the impression that "Plugins" are supposedly easily constructable, modular enhancements.

The idea was simple but in reality it seems very unlikely that i can achieve this, not because writing the logic or programming the script/code to do it is difficult, but because setting up the environment and multiple libraries and components is frustratingly difficult.

I have attempted to follow the wiki example for setting up and creating a wxWigets hello world project, for installing and compiling both SDKs without luck, twice  :x

Anyway, a simple task turned into a nightmare because of escalating complexity which just shouldnt be necessary for achieving the goal.

Ill now not be developing my plugin :P and wanted to vent some.....grrr...

stahta01:
Are you sure you wish to do a plugin?
A template seems to be what you are implying you wish to do.

You may wish to lookup up Code::Blocks templates.

Tim S

thomas:
What exactly is the purpose of such an OpenGL reference plugin? Surely not to add OpenGL rendering inside Code::Blocks... I could not imagine what that could be good for?

Are you talking about a tool to set up a project for an application that uses OpenGL? We have wizards that create projects for OpenGL, GLUT, and GLEW. I have last used the OpenGL one about 2 years ago, and the GLEW one a year ago (and have never used the GLUT one), but to my knowledge they all work OK.

Barking_Mad:
Apologies for being unclear. I wrote a script for another program that essentially would lookup any opengl function externally and return info on the function (not only params but usage info and descriptions). It served as a good, but hacky, quick reference when learning. I was looking to extend the idea to a code blocks plugin.

Its nothing you couldn't do with google, a decent book or something though. Just wanted to put it right where i needed it.

Oh and i don't want to seem ungrateful for a very nice piece of free software :) , so thanks!

Barking_Mad:
Actually looking at a newer release of CB i see the koders query plugin is something along the lines of what i was going to do, ill have another stab at it later in the week.

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